![2018 First prize winner Dr. Prajwal Rajbhandari 2018 First prize winner Dr. Prajwal Rajbhandari](https://sdgresources.relx.com/sites/default/files/styles/sus_content_listing_image/public/capture-decran-2020-04-15-a-15.07.13.png?itok=V9uqfQw8)
In 2018, Dr. Prajwal Rajbhandari was awarded the first prize of the Elsevier Foundation Green and Sustainable Chemistry Challenge for his project, “Guava leaves as natural preservatives for farmers of Nepal.” Due to a lack of viable non-toxic preservatives, or cold chain technologies, one-third of Nepal’s produce is spoiled before it reaches market each year. Dr. Rajbhandari’s project taps the antioxidant and antimicrobial properties of guava leaves to make a water-based, sprayable natural preservative, contributing to SDGs 2, 12 and 15. Two years later, we interviewed Dr. Rajbhandari about his experience as a winner, as well as the upcoming steps for his project.
Eradicating food insecurity is necessary for achieving global health goals. Liberal trade policies might increase food supplies but how these policies influence individual-level food insecurity remains uncertain. We aimed to assess the association between liberal trade policies and food insecurity at the individual level, and whether this association varies across country-income and household-income groups.
![Schematic representation of how guided releases of the monophagous parasitoid Anagyrus lopezi fixed multi-faceted sustainability challenges.](https://sdgresources.relx.com/sites/default/files/styles/sus_content_listing_image/public/1-s2_0-s2214574520300766-gr2_lrg.jpg?itok=fpbYNfun)
Insects are indispensable actors within global agri-food systems and ensure the delivery of myriad ecosystem services.
![Alignment of insecticide research topics with the specific targets of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) and the number of published articles for the period 2017–2019 in tropical countries.](https://sdgresources.relx.com/sites/default/files/styles/sus_content_listing_image/public/1-s2_0-s2214574520300791-gr1_lrg.jpg?itok=ZhO74BPq)
Tropical cropping systems are highly dependent on synthetic insecticides, which generates sustainability issues.
![Schematic representation of the impact of termites on SDGs.](https://sdgresources.relx.com/sites/default/files/styles/sus_content_listing_image/public/1-s2_0-s2214574520300742-gr4_lrg.jpg?itok=H3qBKkoI)
Termites are amongst the main macroinvertebrate decomposers in tropical ecosystems and they exert additional impacts through the creation of biostructures (mounds, galleries, sheetings, etc.) with dif
Background: Plant-based meat alternatives are developed to address consumer demands and sustainability of future food supply, and the market has grown exponentially in recent years.
The Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) is the guiding policy for agriculture and the largest single budget item in the European Union (EU).
This study investigated the drying behaviour of purple-speckled Cocoyam and the effect of drying temperature (40 °C, 60 °C and 75 °C), slice thickness (4 mm, 7 mm and 10 mm) and pre-treatments (blanch
Quality attributes such as moisture content, colour parameters and shrinkage of apples change undesirably during the drying process.