CABI helps facilitate and supervise Regional Master Class in Plant Biosecurity in Indonesia
CABI has helped facilitate and supervise a Crawford Fund-sponsored Regional Master Class in Plant Biosecurity in Salatiga, Indonesia, aimed at building a higher level of expertise across emerging areas of science, policy and agribusiness.
Digital technology and data driven innovation highlighted at CABI’s 399th Executive Council meeting
The use of digital technology and data driven innovation to help fight agricultural pests and diseases and increase global food security was highlighted at CABI's 399th Executive Council meeting in London yesterday (20th February 2019).
PKR 94.4 million project to biologically fight cotton, fruit and vegetable pests in Pakistan
CABI scientists are implementing a two-year PKR 94.4 million project to help thousands of farmers fight cotton, fruit and vegetable crop pests and increase their profits by using more environmentally-friendly and sustainable biological controls.
Dr Matthew Ryan appointed to Phytobiomes Alliance’s Board of Directors
The International Alliance for Phytobiomes Research has announced the appointment of Dr Matthew Ryan and Dr Natalie Breakfield as new Board members of the organization.
Plantwise successes revealed in Impact Story Competition
Plant Clinic in Nepal 6 February 2019 - The successes of smallholder farmers in Nepal, Uganda and Kenya -thanks to help from CABI- have become the focus of the Plantwise Impact Story Competition won by three extension workers who helped them combat crop pests and diseases.…
CABI helps map ferocious speed and likely cause of woody weed spread across Ethiopia
CABI scientists have helped map the ferocious speed and probable cause of a devastating spread of the invasive alien tree Prosopis juliflora (Swartz DC) across an area equivalent to half of neighbouring Djibouti in the Afar Region of northeastern Ethiopia.
Spread of dangerous waterweed in Southern Africa could be ‘devastating’, according to CABI scientist
CABI scientist Dr Philip Weyl has warned that a dangerous waterweed spreading across Southern Africa could have 'devastating' repurcussions on ecosystem functioning and utlization as well as life-supporting services such as fishing.
CABI shares expertise at workshop concerned with threat of invasive species to Gibraltar
Dr Pablo González-Moreno, one of CABI's senior researchers with expertise in invasive plant ecology, has joined a workshop of international scientists concerned with investigating the invasive non-native species that pose the greatest threat to Gibraltar's terrestrial and marine environments.
Lessons in agriculture: CABI joins UNESCO International Day of Education celebrations
CABI is joining the UNESCO International Day of Education celebrations today by highlighting all its efforts to help support the scientists of today and tomorrow in the fight against agricultural pests and diseases.
CABI-partnered ‘Seeing is Believing’ project goes ‘under the microscope’ for Facebook Live event
The CABI-partnered 'Seeing is Believing' project, which empowers farmers with smartphone imaging, is going 'under the microscope' on Thursday (24 January 2019) as part of a special Facebook Live Q&A event.