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Global Plant Clinic saves Christmas in St Lucia  

CABI's Global Plant Clinic has been instrumental in diagnosing a disease devastating the Christmas tree population in Saint Lucia.

(17 December 2008)...more

 

Africa's lost decades: how farming's contribution to development has been greatly underestimated

Speaking at the Forum on Agricultural Financing in Africa in Gabon, Dennis Rangi, Executive Director for International Development, CABI, dispelled myths about African agriculture.

(19 November 2008)...more

 

CAB Abstracts to include full text

From 1 January 2009 CABI’s life sciences bibliographic database, CAB Abstracts, will include full text content that was previously available only through a separate subscription.

(27 October 2008)...more

 

Untangling the knotty problem

Introduced by the Victorians, Japanese knotweed is a pervasive and insidious plant that is costing the UK millions in control efforts. CABI scientists have been researching non-chemical ways to combat this weed.

(13 October 2008)...more 

 

Global Health Archive now available from EBSCO Publishing

Global Health Archive, produced by CABI, is now accessible on EBSCOhost®. Global Health Archive includes more than 800,000 records and provides information on public health, tropical and communicable diseases, nutrition, helminthology, entomology and mycology.

(9 October 2008)...more

 

CABI launches Environmental Impact internet resource

(6 October 2008)...more

 

CABI opens joint laboratory with China

(22 September 2008)... more

 

New regional director for CABI Caribbean and Latin America

(17 September 2008)...more

 

Climate change opens new pastures for crop pests

(3 September 2008)...more

 

'Out of sight, out of mind': fungal taxonomy faces extinction in UK

(22 August 2008)...more

 

Sierra Leone takes a leaf out of Global Plant Clinic's book

(19 August 2008)...more

 

Feeling the heat of food security

(14 August 2008)...more

 

Mushrooming opportunity: novel food ingredients from fungi

(5 August 2008)...more

 

Spotlight on Papua New Guinea

(7 July 2008)...more

 

Cocoa pest poses international threat

(23 June 2008)...more

  

Quality seed is crucial for food security

 (2 June 2008)...more 

 

Don’t let invasive biofuel crops attack your country, warn top scientists

(20 May 2008)...more

 

CABI selects Collexis to develop knowledge discovery application

(28 April 2008)...more

 

Extremophiles: tapping Antarctica’s hidden life

(25 April 2008)...more

 

CABI appoints Semantico to deliver online solutions

(24 April 2008)...more

 

International authority on invasive species appoints new executive director

(23 April 2008)...more

 

CAB eBooks goes live

(11 April 2008)...more

 

Caribbean and Latin American countries meet to discuss improving agriculture and their environmental priorities

(3 March 2008)....more

 

Unique fungal collection could hold key to future antibiotics

(16 January 2008)....more

 

Scientists call for urgent research into real impacts of invasive species

(16 January 2008)....more

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