This study examines the effectiveness of mobile as a novel approach for providing targeted and equitable agri-advisory services to farmers at scale. A cross-sectional survey of farmers registered on CABI's Direct2Farm (D2F) user database was undertaken using a combination of telephone interviews,...

The Regional Universities Forum for Capacity Building in Agriculture (RUFORUM) and CABI are collaborating to strengthen tertiary agricultural education in Africa through provision of privileged, cost-free access to two of CABI's valuable scientific information resources, CAB Abstracts database and...

In Punjab province, home to more than half of Pakistan's cultivated land, the agricultural extension department has only managed to provide information and advisory services to around 10% of the farming population. Working in partnership with the Punjab Department of Agriculture, with funding from...

Food security remains a crucial issue in many developing countries, especially given recent commodity price spikes, and the impact of trade reforms such as the Doha Round is the subject of debate. This systematic review focuses on the evidence for links between agricultural trade liberalisation in...

Background: Invasive species have been reported as one of the leading causes of species extinction. However, the evidence to support or contest their effects on the decline and/or extinction of threatened species has been largely unavailable and few efforts have been made to collate such...