Author Archives: Kayla Strong

What do China’s sick pigs mean for British barbecues?

What do China’s sick pigs mean for British barbecues?

  The worst outbreak of African swine fever virus (ASFV) in fifty years is currently spreading in South East Asia. The disease, which first appeared in China’s Liaoning province in August 2018, threatens the region’s chief source of protein and China’s $128 billion pork industry, which provides 50% of the global supply. Compared with previous… Read more

Mapping 500 Trillion Dollars of Insured Exposure

Mapping 500 Trillion Dollars of Insured Exposure

Cambridge Centre for Risk Studies (CCRS) has just completed a two year exercise documenting all the different types of insurance that are available in the market and a classification system for all the assets that they protect. This has been published as a data definitions document v1.0 – a standardized schema for insurance companies to… Read more

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