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…
Sustainable land management practice successfully ‘uproots’ invasive Prosopis juliflora in East Africa
The adoption of a sustainable land management practice (SLM) to manage invasive Prosopis juliflora – considered one of the world’s most threatening non-native tree species – appears to have ‘uprooted’ the problem in East Africa. A new CABI-led study involving colleagues from Sokoine University of Agriculture, Tanzania, the Tanzania Forestry…
CABI highlights support for just and inclusive transition to sustainable food systems at COP29
CABI has highlighted its support for a just and inclusive transition to sustainable food systems at the 2024 UN Climate Change Conference (COP29) held in Baku, Azerbaijan. This included commitments to share skills, knowledge and technical expertise on helping vulnerable countries around the world to build the capacity of their…
Biodiversity event celebrates 75 years of partnership between CABI and Canada for biological control research
Expertise and a renewed commitment to sustainable invasive pest and weed management has been shared at ‘Biodiversity Days’ hosted by Dr Marcos Alvarez, Executive Director of the Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada (AAFC) Pest Management Centre, and in his function of Canada’s Liaison Officer to CABI. The event was held in…
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…