CABI and CALA Homes reach new ‘landmark’ in new headquarters and homes development
CABI has handed over the keys to its former headquarters to CALA Homes – paving the way for a move into its new state-of-the-art office and the completion of the 91-home Carmel Meadows development in Wallingford. The move means CABI’s outdated building – a former school from the 1960s –…
CABI confirms presence of devastating date pest the red palm weevil on Socotra Island, Yemen
CABI scientist Dr Arne Witt has led an international team of researchers who have confirmed for the first time the presence of the date pest red palm weevil on Socotra Island, Yemen, putting the livelihoods of residents at risk. The red palm weevil Rhynchophorus ferrugineus (Olivier) (Coleoptera: Curculionidae) has already…
Green Muscle providing strength against devastating locusts in the horn of Africa
2020's climate has contributed to the Locust explosion CABI and international biological control producers Éléphant Vert are stepping up the fight against crop-destroying locusts and grasshoppers with a safe and environment friendly product called Green Muscle™ which is now being used in Africa. Around 20 million people in Ethiopia, Kenya,…
Study explores reasons why smallholder farmers in Kenya do not use more biopesticides
CABI scientists have conducted new research which provides new insight into the reasons why smallholder farmers in Kenya do not adopt safer-to-use biopesticides to protect their crops from devastating pests and diseases such as Fall armyworm on maize and whitefly on coffee. Kate Constantine led a team of researchers who…
CABI contributes to special issue on weed biological control with arthropods in ‘Current Opinion in Insect Science’
CABI scientists have joined an international team of researchers as part of a Special Issue of the journal Current Opinion in Insect Science which focuses on the present status and potential future directions of weed biological control using arthropods. Dr Urs Schaffner from CABI’s centre in Switzerland and Prof. Heinz…
Help CABI count the cost of invasive alien species to Africa
CABI is calling on a range of organisations working in agriculture to help them count the economic cost of a multitude of invasive alien species (IAS) – such as the Fall armyworm (Spodoptera frugiperda) and tomato leaf miner (Tuta absoluta) – to Africa by taking part in a major new…
CABI launches new agriRxiv, the dedicated agricultural preprint service for agricultural research
agriRxiv - pronounced agri-archive, and previously known as AgriXiv – is to be relaunched with a new website offering researchers and students access to preprints across agriculture and allied sciences. Preprints are drafts of research articles that authors typically share with the wider community for feedback before submitting their final…
CABI-led Africa Soil Health Consortium helps over a million farmers grow more and better crops
Farmers discussing the effectiveness of banana print material during a pre-test activity in Tanzania The CABI-led Africa Soil Health Consortium (ASHC) has reached more than 1.3 million smallholder farmers in sub-Saharan Africa, helping them to grow more and better crops. Improved information is critical to increase…
PRISE pays dividends with farmers in Kenya heeding vital pest risk advice
Sixty percent of farmers who took part in a pilot SMS service run by Pest Risk Information Service (PRISE) and Precision Agriculture for Development (PAD) in Kenya have heeded vital pest risk advice to help protect their crops from devasting insects such as the Fall armyworm (FAW) which is already…
MARA China-CABI Joint Lab comes into strategic focus amid COVID-19 pandemic
Steering Committee (SC) members of the MARA China-CABI Joint Laboratory for Biosafety and MARA China-CABI European Laboratory have met to review the laboratories’ achievements over the past year as well as set out strategic plans for 2020 amid the COVID-19 pandemic. Representatives of the Chinese Ministry of Agriculture and Rural…