CABI gives thumbs up to EU action against invasive species

October 15, 2013
10 September 2013 – CABI welcomes action that the EU has recently taken (9 September 2013) to protect member states against the adverse impacts of Invasive Alien Species (IAS). The draft Regulation on the prevention and management of the introduction and spread of IAS will help to coordinate management and…
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CABI provides free books through AGORA programme

October 15, 2013
10 September 2013 – CABI has decided to provide developing countries with free access to 77 recently published agriculture, plant and veterinary science books, as part of the AGORA programme. Set up by the UN’s Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) together with major publishers, and now in the run up…
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CABI appoints Dr Babar Bajwa as Regional Director, Central and West Asia

October 15, 2013
CABI is pleased to announce the appointment of Dr Babar Bajwa as Regional Director, Central and West Asia. Dr Bajwa, an award winning agricultural researcher, joined CABI today and is based in our office in Pakistan. He brings with him a wealth of expertise in agribusiness, essential for a region…
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CABI CEO, Dr Trevor Nicholls, elected to Tropical Agriculture Programme committee

October 15, 2013
9 September 2013 – CABI’s CEO, Dr Trevor Nicholls, has been elected to the final steering committee of the Tropical Agriculture Programme (TAP). Already a member of TAP's interim steering committee, Dr Nicholls will hold this new role for the next three years. TAP was launched at the first G20 meeting…
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CABI Plantwise collaboration with IPPC

October 15, 2013
5 September 2013 – As part our recent efforts to improve collaboration on joint activities, CABI Plantwise is delighted to announce an agreement with the International Plant Protection Convention (IPPC) to initiate secondments between the two organisations, and thereby increase transparency and effectiveness. Katherine Cameron, Knowledge Bank Development Manager for…
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Historical CABI records used in crop pest climate change study

October 15, 2013
2 September 2013 – Researchers at the Universities of Exeter and Oxford have revealed in a new study that global warming is resulting in the spread of crop pests towards the North and South Poles at a rate of nearly 3 km a year. The study made significant use of…
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CABI wins project to train vulnerable and unskilled people in Pakistan

October 15, 2013
The Punjab Skills Development Fund (PSDF) is funding CABI to stimulate local markets in Punjab, Pakistan, by developing and training poor, vulnerable and unskilled people from four districts of South Punjab, namely Bahawalpur, Bahawalnagar, Muzaffargarh and Lodhran. The aim is to enhance their skills and allow them to gain better…
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Box tree moth population explodes in the Jura

October 15, 2013
21 August 2013 - CABI's Dr Marc Kenis was interviewed by the Swiss television station, Canal Alpha, about the evolving threat of the box tree moth (Cydalima perspectalis) in the Jura region - an area north of the western Alps. The moths are capable of rapidly defoliating native box plants and…
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