Richard Tren is Director of Africa Fighting Malaria, an analyst for the Free Market Foundation, and a Research Fellow of the Environment Unit at the Institute of Economic Affairs. Africa Fighting Malaria (AFM) is an NGO based in South Africa which states it seeks to educate people about the scourge of Malaria and the political economy of malaria control. ... The Institute of Economic Affairs (IEA) is a London-based conservative think tank. ...

As well as pushing for the use of DDT in combating malaria, he has recently focused the benefits of private ownership of water in South Africa, on deregulation of agriculture, and our need to embrace global warming rather than try to prevent it from happening. He has also opposed a ban by the South African government on disposable plastic shopping bags. DDT was the first modern pesticide and is arguably the most well known organic pesticide. ... Red blood cell infected with Malaria ,derived from mala aria (Italian: bad air) and formerly called ague or marsh fever in English) is an infectious disease which causes about 350-500 million infections with humans and approximately 1. ... Deregulation is the process by which governments remove restrictions on business in order to (in theory) encourage the efficient operation of markets. ... Global mean surface temperatures 1856 to 2005 Mean temperature anomalies during the period 1995 to 2004 with respect to the average temperatures from 1940 to 1980 Global warming is an increase in the average temperature of the Earths atmosphere and oceans. ...

He writes frequently for Tech Central Station. Tech Central Station (TCS) describes itself as a website where free markets meet technology. TCS publishes daily original commentary, news and analysis, focused on economics, business, foreign affairs, technology, science, environment, trade, and culture. ...

The biographical note appended to one of Tren's pro-DDT columns, originally published by the United Press International, states that "Mr Tren has a close association with G&G and G&G plays a role in Africa Fighting Malaria." [1] Front of UPI Headquarters, Washington, D.C. United Press International (UPI) is a global news agency headquartered in the United States filing news in English, Spanish and Arabic. ... Africa Fighting Malaria (AFM) is an NGO based in South Africa which states it seeks to educate people about the scourge of Malaria and the political economy of malaria control. ...

Books by Tren

• Malaria & the Ddt Story, Institute of Economic Affairs (12/01/2001), ISBN 0255364997.

External links

By Richard Tren

• "Doctors Without Principles," Capitalism Magazine, June 30, 2002.
• with Roger Bate, "Malaria Rates Underscore Need to Set Aside Costly Taboos," Journal of the South African Institute of International Affairs, December 1, 2004.
• "Greenpeace policies keeping Africa poor", Checkbiotech.org, June 18, 2003.
• "Where DDT Works," Tech Central Station, April 26, 2004.
• "The Malaria Fight Continues", undated, accessed January 2006.
• "The Cost of Free Water", undated, accessed January 2006.
• "South Africa Suffocates Under Plastic Bag Ban", undated, accessed May 2005.

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