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Vartika Singh

Vartika Singh is a Senior Research Analyst in the Natural Resources and Resilience Unit, based in New Delhi, and a Senior Research Officer at the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad. She is currently a doctoral candidate at Humboldt University in Berlin and a guest researcher at the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK) in Germany. Her research interest is in the nexus of food-water-energy and land. 

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Natural Enemy Insects Add Value to Green Production (China Science Daily)

August 22, 2018

China Science Daily amplified findings by IFPRI’s Research Fellow, Wei Zhang, regarding the economic benefit Ladybugs have on cotton farmers.  Zhang argued in her research paper that Ladybugs are a natural pest control, and that consistent use of pesticides undermine farmers’ profitability. 

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