CABI attends presidential round table to highlight help for Burundi’s smallholder farmers to increase food security
CABI has taken part in a presidential round table event and highlighted its support for Burundi’s smallholder farmers to increase their livelihoods and food security. Dr Dennis Rangi, Director General, Development, and Dr Janny Vos, Partnerships Development Director, attended the event held in Bujumbura to share the Burundian Government’s vision…
Delegation of officials from MARA-CABI Joint Lab and its four subcentres convene to develop research projects
Officials from the Chinese Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs (MARA)-CABI Joint Laboratory for Biosafety and four subcentres of the Joint Lab have come together to share scientific progress and explore ways to further collaborate towards greater food security and safety. This includes a specific focus on the use of…
Scientists ‘turn up the heat’ on understanding coffee wilt disease which threatens our favourite daily brew
Scientists, including those from Imperial College London, University of Oxford and CABI, have ‘turned up the heat’ on how repeated outbreaks of coffee wilt disease threatened arabica and robusta varieties of our favourite daily coffee brew. The scientists, who present their findings in the journal PLoS Biology, say the fungal…
Animal-sourced foods improve child nutrition in Africa, CABI-led study finds
Animal-sourced foods – such as meat, dairy, eggs, and fish – have been found to improve child nutrition in Africa, according to new research led by CABI and the University of Bonn, Germany, and published in a special feature of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS). Dr…
Ability of PlantwisePlus to empower smallholder farmers featured at European Commission’s InfoPoint Conference
The ability of the CABI-led PlantwisePlus programme to empower smallholder farmers to safeguard crops, livelihoods and biodiversity, has been featured at an InfoPoint Conference organized by the European Commission in Brussels, Belgium. Dr Daniel Elger, CABI CEO, and Dr Janny Vos, Partnerships Development Director at CABI, spoke about how PlantwisePlus…
CABI supports project to help smallholder farmers fight the sweet potato weevil in Caribbean
CABI is supporting a project to help smallholder farmers fight the sweet potato weevil (SPW) in Antigua and Barbuda, Jamaica, and St Lucia using environmentally friendly biological control agents as part of an Integrated Pest Management (IPM) plan. Dr Belinda Luke, Global Team Leader, PlantwisePlus, provided training with Dr Elizabeth…