CABI in Africa
About CABI in Africa
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Over 80% of people living in rural areas of Africa rely on the food they can grow. We work with partners to provide information, training and support that rural communities need to identify and implement appropriate solutions to many of the key problems they face.
Find out about our work, projects, and how to contact us by using the links on the left.
"The driving force behind our work is the need to enhance food security and protect biodiversity in order to ensure improved livelihoods for the majority of the African population who depend on agriculture. "
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Morris Akiri, Regional Director, CABI
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"Since 1995 when the CABI centre in Kenya was established, we have been working closely with the communities that we serve, to address the problems they face using sustainable approaches. We work in partnership with national and regional organizations in both member and non-member countries. Our work includes helping smallholder commodity growers and traders in Africa to respond to commodity challenges thus enabling them to compete on the local and global markets. We also support the management of invasive species in agriculture, trade and the environment through conducting research, promoting education and capacity building, creating awareness and influencing policy development. Furthermore, we promote rural innovation through identifying barriers that hinder accessing and sharing of knowledge among stakeholders, and providing farmers, researchers, policy makers and other stakeholders with the information that they need to make decisions and to lift people out of poverty."
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Find out more about the CABI team in Kenya by clicking on The Team in the left menu
Contact the CABI team in Kenya, Africa >>
Ghana
CABI has recently opened an office in Accra, Ghana
there are currently 16 CABI member countries in Africa
Latest news
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Invites for bids
The Common Fund for Commodities is inviting bids from suitably qualified consultants/consulting firms to conduct a mid-term evaluation cum technical assessment for a project on cotton.
For more information and to apply, please see our HR page
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Improving soil health in Africa
Since its inception, the Africa Soil Health Consortium (ASHC) project has embarked on several activities with the aim of ensuring that much needed information on soil health gathered through scientific research is able to reach smallholder farmers and have a greater impact on overall crop production.
Visit the ASHC website>>
Take a look at Soil Health News>>
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The use of metaphors and other figurative language in communicating scientific information is a topic of debate, and this was highlighted when Roger Day of CABI Africa reflected on the effects of such language in communicating matters of invasive species. While delivering a paper entitled Invasive Species: An Alien Idea to African Publics? during a meeting on Promoting Public Understanding of Science held in Nairobi, Kenya, Day noted that much communication, particularly when attempting to bring scientific debates to a wider audience, uses metaphor, and this can colour public discourse in subtle ways.
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CABI Africa presents findings for the biological control of white coffee stem borer
Lucy Karanja, a scientist at CABI Africa, was among 150 delegates who presented their research findings on ways of using biological methods to tackle pests and diseases affecting agricultural crops during the 8th International Symposium on Biocontrol and Biotechnology recently held in Bangkok. To read more about what she presented please click here or to read her abstract please click here.
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Listen in to Roger Day one of our leading scientists, talking about the work to forecast for armyworms - voracious black caterpillars that devastate crops in Sub-Saharan Africa - on the ‘Naked Scientists’ Website. Roger has been working with a range of partners on several projects to tackle armyworm. You can find out more by clicking here.
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Two new varieties of kale have been licensed in Kenya, with a further three in the pipeline, thanks to a seed-bulking project funded by a CABI Innovation Award. Three Innovation Awards are presented annually to internal teams who propose projects to contribute to furthering CABI’s mission and objectives. Find out more about this project.
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Listen in to Arne Witt, one of our invasive species specialists, talking about the effect of the damaging weed Parthenium in Africa, on the ‘Naked Scientists’ Website. Arne is based in Nairobi and has been working on a GEF-funded project to tackle and raise awareness of a range of invasive species in four African countries. You can find out more by clicking here.
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