- Americans have long been touted as the poster children for obesity. However, new data shows that the isolated communities of the Pacific Islands are home to an unparalleled epidemic of this global problem. The majority of countries with the highest rates of obesity in the world are Pacific island…
- CGIAR has done well in Africa. Can it do more? What is needed to increase the impact of its work? How can financial resources be leveraged and technological innovations be disseminated? Are Innovation Platforms an effective means of achieving impact? These questions and more are being addressed as…
- NZ citizen, permanent resident of Japan, MSc Auckland (NZ), PhD ANU (Australia), full-time researcher, ethnobotanist, National Museum of Ethnology, Osaka, Japan. Specialist in crop history, domestication. Taro Colocasia spp.), paper mulberry (Broussonetia spp.), other. Field work experience in NZ…
- Animal Nutritionist Program Director for Environment and Natural Resource Management, JIRCAS
- Keijiro Otsuka is a Professor of Development Economics at the National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies in Tokyo and President of International Association of Agricultural Economists.Kei has been conducting a large number of comparative case-studies on Green Revolution,land tenure and tenancy,…