Forests can reduce hunger in rural households while also capturing carbon and advancing sustainability goals for low- and middle-income countries, according to new research by University of Notre Dame experts.
Through the Keough School’s i-Lab (Integration Lab), Master of Global Affairs students specializing in Sustainable Development and Governance & Policy immerse themselves in a consultancy-style project with real-world impact. The result of this team-based work—a summer in the field, bookended by three semesters in an academic setting—could be a technical report, a toolkit, or case studies for use by their partner organization.
Simbarashe ‘Simba’ Absolom Murondoti, a 2023 University of Notre Dame Mandela Washington Fellowship alum, returned to campus in May to participate in the IDEA Center’s McCloskey New Venture Competition. He recently shared his experience with the Pulte Institute.
With research completed for this multi-country study identifying effective policies and practices to improve primary-school-age children’s access to books, in-country dissemination events in participating Cambodia, Honduras and Rwanda amplified findings over the past year.
The incidence of low birth weight rose sharply in India amid the COVID-19 pandemic, according to new research from Santosh Kumar, associate professor of development and global health economics at Notre Dame’s Keough School of Global Affairs.
