CABI and ACIAR sign AUD $2.1 million four-year agreement to steer future collaboration
CABI and the Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research (ACIAR) have signed a four-year agreement worth AUD $2.1 million to guide future collaboration that will fight a range of crop pests and disease which threaten global food security.
Phone app set to transform how low-income farmers in Africa invest in fertilizer
An upgrade to a mobile phone app now offers farmers across Africa even more benefits and cutting-edge fertilizer use technology.
Strong, inclusive and empowering partnerships vital to tackling the world’s food crisis
Dr Dennis Rangi, CABI’s Director General, Development, has told CABI’s African Regional Consultation in Botswana that strong, inclusive and empowering partnerships are key to tackling not only Africa’s but the world’s food crisis where some 815 million suffer chronic undernourishment.
CABI research helps ‘harvest’ the prospect of more sustainable tea production in India
CABI scientists have revealed that India’s tea – which accounts for around 27 percent of the world’s tea production – could be protected from devastating crop pests with more environmentally friendly and sustainable biological controls rather than an over reliance on pesticides.
CABI shares expertise on rubber tree blight in major new Amazon documentary series
CABI is today sharing its expertise on the devastating rubber tree blight disease- that could severely impact upon the world’s rubber production for essential items including tyres, shoes and the seals on a multitude of household and industrial items- as part of a major new Amazon documentary series now airing.
CABI helps facilitate and supervise Regional Master Class in Plant Biosecurity in Indonesia
CABI has helped facilitate and supervise a Crawford Fund-sponsored Regional Master Class in Plant Biosecurity in Salatiga, Indonesia, aimed at building a higher level of expertise across emerging areas of science, policy and agribusiness.