The RAFT (Resilience Against Future Threats through Vector Control) research consortium would like to invite you to their 6th webinar of the TechTalk series on Emerging threats in a changing world. Please circulate the details to your colleagues.

Rice and malaria in Africa: part of the problem or part of the solution?

Tuesday 13 May at 11.00 UK time.

In many African countries, the Ministry of Health is planning the pathway to malaria elimination, and meanwhile the Ministry of Agriculture is planning a massive expansion of irrigated rice. These are both desirable goals, and many international donors, including FCDO, are supporting both. Unfortunately, the agricultural goal is likely to interfere with the public heath goal: irrigated rice in Africa tends to “build-in” the malaria problem.  

In this webinar, we will discuss possible solutions to this problem, in the light of previous work on methane and the role of rice as a driver of climate change.

Please register here: https://tiny.cc/raft-techtalk6

More details: https://globalvectorhub.lshtm.ac.uk/raft-events-news-webinars