Harvard in the World

A grant from the National Institutes of Health will fund a new center, based at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, that aims to bring sustainable climate solutions to heat stressed, low-income communities around the globe.

Co-founded by Rea Savla MBA ’24, Solara provides solar-powered irrigation to small farmers in India as a pay-per-use service, cutting irrigation costs in half and reducing carbon emissions.

As founder of Chaku Foods, Nikki Okrah MBA ’21 is helping to boost the incomes of Ghanian farmers and reduce food waste by turning surplus plantain yields into consumer goods. 

Three rising seniors share their summer plans, all with an eye toward their futures.

Harvard Graduate School of Design students traveled to Monterrey, Mexico, to help devise design strategies along the Santa Catarina watershed to increase water security and to reduce flood risk. 

Research fellow Faiz Haque and PhD student Evan Routhier investigate how methylmercury enters the food web in the Amazon basin, where illegal gold mining has increased along the river.

Harvard Law School instructor Aminta Ossom JD ’09 and law student Taryn Shanes joined a UN forum to call for government intervention to mitigate water crises in vulnerable communities.

At the Harvard Graduate School of Education’s Askwith Forum, Clinton Foundation co-chair Chelsea Clinton led a panel of experts in a discussion about climate change and the role educators can have in improving the lives of children living amid the impacts of a warming planet.

Harvard’s Center for International Development, in collaboration with Harvard Radcliffe Institute and the Lakshmi Mittal and Family South Asia Institute, announced the recipients of the 2023 Global Empowerment Meeting Incubation Fund, advancing innovative climate change research for developing economies on the frontlines of the crisis.

Cofounded by Viraj Sikand MBA '24, MPA '27 and Mark Tracy MPA '11, EarthAcre makes it lucrative for Indigenous communities to protect biodiverse habitats by selling "biocredits."