On 22 November 2018 Malcolm Hudson gave an invited lecture entitled ‘Plastic Pollution- should we be worried?’ to the Royal Society of Chemistry at the National Oceanography Centre- exploring the environmental issues to an audience with an industrial background. Malcolm, who leads the University’s Marine Plastic Pollution Special Interest Group …
BRECcIA (Building REsearch Capacity for sustainable water and food security In drylands of sub-saharan Africa) is the largest funded Global Challenges Research Fund (GCRF) project the University of Southampton leads at present. BRECcIA is funded under the first large-scale consortia call from GCRF (see https://www.ukri.org/research/global-challenges-research-fund/funded-projects/) – 37 projects are included …
Rice is the world’s major staple food crop occupying over 12% of global cropland area (FAOSTAT, 2010) which produces around 800 million tons (FAO, 2017). Nearly 90% of the world’s rice is produced and consumed in Asian countries (FAO, 2000). Therefore, information on agricultural plantation area, yield, and production are …
