CABI celebrates 30 years of UKAS accreditation
22 July 2014 CABI is proud to announce 30 years as a UKAS accredited laboratory providing confidence and trust for our customers. The annual assessment undertaken in July to the internationally recognized standard, ISO 17025, demonstrates our competency, impartiality and performance capability. The initial accreditation in 1984 for mould…
World expert, Temple Grandin, addresses Royal Veterinary College on animal welfare
11 July 2014 Temple Grandin, the world renowned expert on animal behaviour, today gave a characteristically stimulating talk to more than 100 students, faculty staff and members of the general public at the Royal Veterinary Colleges Centre for Animal Welfare. The event, organized by CABI and RVC was entitled…
AIRCA reacts to third meeting of G20 Agricultural Chief Scientists
11 July 2014 G20 Agricultural Chief Scientists recently published a communiqué following their third meeting of 19-20 June held in Brisbane, Australia. The communiqué summarizes key issues for tackling global food security. The Association of International Research and Development Centers for Agriculture (AIRCA), of which CABI is a member, is…
Go-ahead for new mobile project to tackle malnutrition in Africa and Asia
4 July 2014 CABI-led consortium gains GSMA funding to help three million people access nutrition information using mobile technology More than three million people in Sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia will soon be able to access vital nutrition and health information using mobile technology as part of a new…
CABI-RVC symposium explores the future of farm animal welfare
11 June 2014 CABI, together with the Royal Veterinary College (RVC), London, today held a symposium marking the 50th anniversary of Ruth Harrisons influential Animal Machines a book that heralded an entire movement in farm animal welfare and the welfare of animals in intensive production. The symposium, Animal…
CABI receives prestigious award for supporting graduate tourism research
7 June 2014 CABI has received a prestigious award for supporting the 3rd Interdisciplinary Tourism Research Conference / 7th World Conference for Graduate Research in Tourism, Hospitality and Leisure in Istanbul, Turkey, by providing book prizes to the conferences winning graduate researchers. CABI authors were on hand at the…
Looking back at a year of impact: CABI in Review 2013
23 May 2014 We are delighted to bring you CABI in Review 2013. Each year, we publish an annual review to tell the stories of our projects and the impact they have on the farmers, extension workers, scientists, policy makers and professional practitioners we work with. This year, we pay…
World Cup mascot under threat
12 June 2014 Brazils World Cup mascot, Fuleco the three-banded armadillo, is under threat. Its habitat in Caatinga, Northeast Brazil, is being smothered by rubbervine, an invasive weed. Already thought to be extinct until its rediscovery in the 1990s, the armadillo has suffered a substantial decline in numbers over…
National Geographic Hackathon
4 May 2014 Check out this video to hear how CABI contributed to National Geographics Future of Food Hackathon in Washington DC last weekend. CABIs Dr Martin Parr and Dr Timothy Holmes of the Plantwise knowledge bank describe the type of open access data from CABI which was offered to participants of…
Sustainable solutions to soil pest problems in Rwanda
1 March 2014 A two-year project to transfer technology from China to Rwanda started earlier this year. The project, financed by the Agri TT programme, is supporting Rwandas efforts to improve its soil and solve its insect pest problems with biologically-based crop protection technology from China. The project will…