More than 5 million farmers helped in bid to battle scourge of locust swarms in Kenya and Ethiopia
CABI development communications experts have joined forces with the Mercy Corps AgriFin programme to reach over 5 million farmers in Kenya and Ethiopia with advice on how to identify and tackle locust swarms which threatened to destroy their crops. Staff working from CABI’s Africa Centre in Nairobi, Kenya, teamed up…
CABI tracks down and destroys Asian hornet nest in Switzerland using radio telemetry technique
CABI scientist Dr Lukas Seehausen has successfully tracked down and killed the Asian hornet (Vespa velutina) and destroyed its nest in Le Noirmont, Switzerland, after closing the net on the predator using state-of-the-art radio telemetry technology. Dr Seehausen, who is based at CABI’s Swiss Centre in Delémont, Saidou Nacambo and…
Fighting the yellow-legged Asian hornet in Switzerland
The yellow-legged Asian hornet, Vespa velutina nigrithorax, was first detected in central Europe in 2004 and has since established in many countries on the continent. This hornet is a predator of honey bees and other insects, threatening honey production, pollination services and biodiversity. With Switzerland facing the imminent invasion by…
New report evaluates successes of CABI-led Plantwise and Action on Invasives programmes
An external evaluation report, recently commissioned by CABI on behalf of the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs, has been published. The report describes the independent evaluation of the CABI-led Plantwise and Action on Invasives programmes that both aim at increasing agricultural production and farmers’ incomes impacted by crop pests and…
Drones for desert locust control in East Africa
The desert locust, Schistocerca gregaria (Forskal), is arguably the most destructive agricultural pest, globally. During 2019 and 2020, the changing weather created conditions that are favoured by the desert locust for rapid reproduction and migration and led to the pest spreading through the Horn of Africa, East Africa, Arabian Peninsula,…
CABI collaborates with ASEAN Action Plan on Fall Armyworm Control and co-hosts webinar series
The ASEAN Action Plan on Fall Armyworm Control and CABI are working towards effective approaches to biocontrol of fall armyworm (Spodoptera frugiperda) in Southeast Asia with an informative three-part webinar series. The webinars, the first of which took place on 10 September, explore classical, biopesticide, augmentative and conservation-based biocontrol approaches…