Agricultural expansion through rainfed or irrigated cropland appears to increase the risk of childhood malaria in sub-Saharan Africa. This is true for both rural or urban contexts. But retaining some natural vegetation within croplands could reduce the risk.
AuthorKris Murray
Dr Kris Murray is Associate Professor, Environment and Health (MRCG@LSHTM); Senior Lecturer (Ecological Health, Imperial College London), London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine.
He trained in Biology as an undergraduate and received a PhD in Disease Ecology in 2010, working on the pandemic amphibian disease chytridiomycosis. He has since been working at the interface between environmental, wildlife and human health.