Evidence Library – Lloyd’s Register Foundation Global Safety Evidence Centre

The Centre aims to collate, create and communicate the best available safety evidence from the Foundation, our partners and other sources on both the nature and scale of global safety challenges, and what works to address them. Evidence is critical to improving the safety of people and property – but often does not yet exist,…

Lloyd’s Register Foundation

We support research, innovation, and education to make the world a safer place. Lloyd’s Register Foundation is a global safety charity with a mission to engineer a safer world. Building on the Foundation’s partnerships and impact to date, and harnessing over 250 years of maritime safety knowledge, we focus on enhancing the safety of life…

TANGERIA – Gene-editing and the Climate Response: Science, Values and Politics – INGSA Case Study

The National Agricultural Research Institute of Tangeria (NARIT) wishes to test the new varieties of super-maize and pasture grass produced by gene-editing. The institute has been promised strong financial support from TAACI who are prepared to meet 75% of the development costs. There is also interest from UN organisations that are promoting better responses to…

GONSWANA – Food insecurity and new technologies – INGSA Case Study

A research consortium including eminent experts from the National University of Gonswana recently announced that it was about to launch the final phase of its new locust control method. Using a gene editing technique, the researchers were able to alter the pheromone gene leading to the development of locust swarms. When locusts whose gene has…

TERREMOTIA – Folk Knowledge and the Understanding of Risk – INGSA Case Study

At 4.35 am on 4 December 2016, which happened to coincide with a full moon, a magnitude 6.7 earthquake struck about 30 kilometres west of Mercator de Terremotia, at a relatively shallow depth. The quake was caused by movement along a previously unrecognised minor fault line that had not been mapped. The fault line lies…

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