CABI contributes to new research investigating impact of COVID-19 and locusts on farm households in Pakistan
CABI scientists have played a key role in new research from the Asian Development Bank (ADB) which highlights the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic and locust invasions on farm households in the Punjab and Sindh provinces of Pakistan. Researchers from CABI’s centre in Pakistan provided expertise and support for 839…
CABI helps step up the fight to find suitable biocontrol for the Comstock mealybug in Swiss Canton of Valais
CABI scientist Dr Lukas Seehausen has joined colleagues from Agroscope, Andermatt Biocontrol and the Office of Arboriculture of the Canton Valais to step up the fight against the Comstock mealybug (Pseudococcus comstocki) with augmentative releases of a parasitic wasp. Twenty thousand parasitic wasps (Acerophagus malinus) were released in two plots…
New perspectives needed to boost success of Classical Biological Control to fight insect pests
A CABI-led study has revealed that the success of Classical Biological Control (CBC) in Europe, North Africa and the Middle East is only rarely dependent on the released biological control agent, but more often on other factors, such as the target pest, its host plant, or the circumstances of the…
FAO and CABI act in concert to intensify pest control in Eastern Africa
As part of a broad-based initiative to address the plant protection needs of the Eastern Africa nations, a practical training programme on Pest Risk Analysis (PRA) was delivered to experts drawn from the National Plant Protection Organizations (NPPO) of Burundi, Djibouti, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Kenya, Rwanda, Somalia, South Sudan and Uganda.…
CABI expertise contributes to newly registered biological defence against the fall armyworm in Kenya
Fawligen, a biological control product for managing the fall armyworm (Spodoptera frugiperda) has been formally registered by the Pest Control Products Board (PCPB) for use in Kenya. Formally launched on 28th May 2021, this represents a culmination of efforts started in 2018 under the CABI Action on Invasives programme that…
CABI expertise supports national campaign to control invasive floating pennywort on Britain’s rivers and lakes
CABI’s expertise on finding a suitable biological control for the highly invasive floating pennywort – which threatens the ecology of Britain’s rivers and lakes – has helped support a new national campaign to control the water weed. As part of the campaign launch, Djami Djeddour, Senior Scientific Officer at CABI,…