Climate change adaption 2018.12.14 New joint research effort on climate change adaptation While the UN climate negotiations get underway in Poland, a new collaborative research effort has kicked off. The Rights and Resilience project – also known as RARE – will investigate the little studied connections…
Books 2018.12.03 Christmas gift ideas: Books with a touch of IFRO Looking for the perfect gift for the nature lover, the critical thinker, the friend with an interest in economics or the book worm with a love of reserach? Search no more. IFRO researchers got you covered.
Biodiversity 2018.11.27 Natural habitats larger than Greece created to offset economic developments New data presented in a study published in 'Nature Sustainability' has found that natural habitats occupying an area larger than Greece have been created to offset economic developments. This data could eventually…
Innovation Prize 2018.11.19 Ida Theilade receives the UCPH Innovation Prize 2018 An app used by local people to map illegal logging in Cambodia ensured Ida Theilade, Senior Reseacher at Department of Food and Resource Economics (IFRO), University of Copenhagen, the Innovation Prize 2018 at the…
2018.03.28 Precision Agriculture New IFRO report presents perspectives of using precision farming in Europe
2018.02.01 New research questions assumptions about bushmeat hunting in the Global South As many as 150 million rural households across the Global South may be involved in bushmeat hunting, new studies led by the University of Copenhagen find. Hunting is prevalent in the 24 countries surveyed but only makes…
2018.01.04 Responsible Conduct in Research A new edition of 'RCR - A Danish textbook for courses in Responsible Conduct of Research' was released January 2018.
2018.01.02 A look at WQ's aggregation system New IFRO-study compares existing practices with animal welfare experts' assessments
2017.12.12 Mapping finds widespread ivory poaching in protected areas in Tanzania and Mozambique Photo: Sergey Khachatryan/ScanStockPhoto Better management of protected wildlife areas in the transboundary area covering southern Tanzania and northern Mozambique could enhance the protection of elephants from ivory…
2017.08.31 Supermarkets could trick you into buying fewer calories Supermarkets could help consumers to eat fewer calories by reducing the calories content of the food products without notifying consumers explicitly, according to a study from the University of Copenhagen.