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Welcome to CABI 


CABI is a not-for-profit international organization that improves people’s lives by providing information and applying scientific expertise to solve problems in agriculture and the environment. Our mission and direction is influenced by our member countries who help guide the activities we undertake. These include scientific publishing, development projects and research, and microbial services.   


 
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CABI celebrates its centenary

2010 marks 100 years of CABI. Since its beginnings as an entomological committee in 1910, it then developed into a Commonwealth organization before becoming a truly international service in agricultural information, pest identification and biological control in the mid 1980s. Find out more about what we have been up to in the last 100 years. From milk to the Russian Revolution - it makes for an interesting read! 

 


Improved AC now live!

The new platform for The Aquaculure Compendium, CABI's comprehensive resource with images, maps and articles covering all aspects of aquaculture, is now launched. Please visit the new site on www.cabi.org/ac.

The revised platform includes: easy-to-use search engines, clearer layout, taxonomy browse, regular updating, recently commissioned and updated datasheets, core data from WorldFish Center and many other sources.
More on the new AC>>



Clearing Parthenium in Ethiopia 

Naked Scientist Arne Witt talks about invasive weed Parthenium

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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Watering kale seedlings 

From research project to market: CABI team bulks up kale seed in Kenya

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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New CAB Direct Enhancements now live!

Leading-edge search technology, improved facilities for record-marking and manipulation, one-click export compatibility for citations, an XML gateway for federated search connections, compliance with Shibboleth 2.0: researchers, professionals, and librarians will have their work made even easier by a raft of user-driven enhancements to CAB Direct. Find out more about the new CAB Direct enhancements.


 2009 annual review

CABI in Review 
CABI's latest annual review looks back over a year of CABI’s work in publishing, scientific research, and international development, and illustrates a range of projects that are contributing to improving food security, helping farmers, and protecting biodiversity.  

Read our latest annual review.