Ambassadorial visit serves to help strengthen greater sustainable agriculture in Burundi

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CABI assisted the Koppert Foundation to host a visit from the Ambassador of Burundi in The Hague, H.E. Madame Isabelle Ndahayo, and help strengthen greater sustainable agriculture, improve smallholder farmer livelihoods and food security. Dr Janny Vos, CABI’s Partnerships Development Director, helped Koppert organize the visit to their facilities to…
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CABI attends presidential round table to highlight help for Burundi’s smallholder farmers to increase food security

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…
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Delegation of officials from MARA-CABI Joint Lab and its four subcentres convene to develop research projects

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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…
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Scientists ‘turn up the heat’ on understanding coffee wilt disease which threatens our favourite daily brew

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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…
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Animal-sourced foods improve child nutrition in Africa, CABI-led study finds

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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…
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Sustainable land management practice successfully ‘uproots’ invasive Prosopis juliflora in East Africa

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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…
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