Farmer planting rice in a paddy field
 

issue 10 / February 2010


Looking for danger: plant disease surveillance

Cover of the GPC video

Plant diseases are on the move and they are not respecting international borders.

 

This video looks at the work of CABI's Global Plant Clinic in plant disease surveillance in Africa.

 

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Out of Africa?
- a clear and present danger to world coffee

CABI launches the final report of a seven-year study on coffee wilt disease.

 

The disease was first reported from

Central Africa in the 1920s, but was brought under control by the 1950s. However it returned with a vengeance in the 1990s.

 

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Man looking at tree infected with coffee wilt disease

First International Congress on Biological Invasions declared 'overwhelming success'

ICBI conference panel photo

An international conference co-sponsored and co-organized by CABI has been declared an 'overwhelming success'.

 

The conference held in Fuzhou, China strengthened international collaboration in managing biological invasions.

 

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Interview with animal welfare expert

- Dr Temple Grandin

Dr Temple Grandin is the academic world's best known autistic scholar and leading voice on animal welfare issues.

 

She is the editor of the recently published CABI book - Improving Animal Welfare. In this interview Dr Grandin shares with us some of her insights into animal behaviour.

 

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Temple Grandin

Haiti relief effort:
free access to Global Health database

Hands in running water

Responding to the needs of organizations like Doctors without Borders (Medecins Sans Frontieres) CABI is making our Global Health database freely available until 28 February 2010.

 

Global Health is freely accessible through CABI's Global Health Knowledge Base.

 

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A history of CABI: 1910 - 2010

To mark 100 years of CABI
Dr Denis Blight, a former chief executive of CABI, is writing a history of our organization.

 

Dr Blight shares with us his research so far, revealing that CABI's foundations predate both the UN's Food and Agriculture Organization and the CGIAR.

 

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CABI 100 years anniversary logo

 

Publishing

CABI develops new agricultural research archive

 

Publisher Collection from CABI added to Credo Reference

 

CABI fishes for stories on

African aquaculture

 

What's new for Compendia in 2010?

 

CAB Abstracts hits six million records

 

Books quarterly: the latest books published by CABI and forthcoming titles

 

Research and Development

 

CABI is an RIU 'Best Bet'

 

Newly won CABI projects

 

The invasive weed that's getting up our noses

 

Common Fund for Commodities: aiding development for 20 years

 

Protecting our planet in the International Year of Biodiversity

 

Impact of nature's invading aliens measured for first time

 

Microbial Services

Exploring biotechnology opportunities from Antarctica

 

CABI and Kew combine to create world's largest collection of fungi

People

New Director of Bioservices

 

SLA appointment for CABI staff member


Other links

CABI blog

CABI in review 2008

CABI in the news

LeishInfo.org

 

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