Richard Tren

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.

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.

He writes frequently for Tech Central Station.

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." It is not clear what "G&G" refers to, but the best guess seems to be the G&G Group, a KwaZulu-Natal-based investment company.

Books

 * Tren, R. (2001). Malaria & the DDT story. Institute of Economic Affairs ISBN 0-255-36499-7.

Articles

 * "Doctors Without Principles," Capitalism Magazine, June 30, 2002.
 * "Malaria Rates Underscore Need to Set Aside Costly Taboos," (with Roger Bate) 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.