Monthly Archives: October 2014

Weather index insurance helps African farmers

Posted on 27 October, 2014 by Stephen Burt

By Emily Black The 886 million Africans who depend on subsistence agriculture are highly vulnerable to weather-related agricultural risk.  This vulnerability is exacerbated by a lack of access to insurance. A cheap and practical alternative to traditional insurance is weather … Continue reading →

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Meteorology student life at Reading

Posted on 20 October, 2014 by Stephen Burt

By Pete Inness We’ve now had 3 weeks of the Autumn Term and the undergraduate students at Reading are already taking part in a number of activities to get them out of the classroom and experience some of the more … Continue reading →

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What a strange summer we’ve had!

Posted on 13 October, 2014 by Stephen Burt

By Roger Brugge Statistics for Reading show that July was the eighth consecutive warmer-than-average month on campus, before August (average temperature 15.8 ⁰C) turned cool enough for the summer to be just 0.1 degC warmer than average. But summer was … Continue reading →

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Healthy eating, healthy planet?

Posted on 6 October, 2014 by Stephen Burt

By Joy Singarayer Roughly 37% of all land on Earth is being used for agriculture (Reference 1, Figure 1), and with population projected at 9 billion by 2050 and more people consuming a western-style meat-rich diet some studies expect food production will … Continue reading →

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