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,…
CABI BioProtection Portal now available in Hungary
The CABI BioProtection Portal has now been launched in Hungary, in addition to already helping farmers reduce reliance on chemical pesticides in many other countries. CABI today made its ground-breaking online bioprotection resource available in Hungary, adding to the growing number of countries – across four continents – where it…
Emergency response plan for Invasive Alien Pests developed for Ghana
An emergency response plan for managing incursions of Invasive Alien Pests (IAPs) in Ghana has been validated at a stakeholder workshop organized by CABI in collaboration with the Plant Protection and Regulatory Services Directorate (PPRSD) of the Ministry of Food and Agriculture and the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). The workshop,…
MARA-CABI Joint Laboratory sets its sights on becoming a world recognized Centre of Excellence
The Chinese Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs (MARA)-CABI Joint Laboratory (Joint Lab) has set its sights on becoming a world recognized Centre of Excellence for collaborative research and technology transfer in green plant protection technology development. The vision – outlined in a CABI Study Brief looking back on 12…
Polypharmakos and CABI agree to develop new antimicrobial products from CABI’s Culture Collection
Polypharmakos Limited, a spin-out company from the UK’s Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew and University of Cambridge, and international not-for-profit organisation CABI have signed a research collaboration and licensing agreement to develop novel products from CABI’s Culture Collection. CABI’s Culture Collection consists of 30,000 strains of optimally preserved fungi and bacteria…
CABI BioProtection Portal welcomes new partner Biobest
This partnership will help CABI to increase global reach and uptake of the free tool and enhance awareness and uptake of biocontrol and biopesticide products. The CABI BioProtection Portal has welcomed Biobest as a partner. This is great news for the development of the free-to-use tool which promotes awareness and…