Digital technology and data driven innovation highlighted at CABI’s 399th Executive Council meeting
The use of digital technology and data driven innovation to help fight agricultural pests and diseases and increase global food security was highlighted at CABI’s 399th Executive Council meeting in London yesterday (20th February 2019).
Dr Matthew Ryan appointed to Phytobiomes Alliance’s Board of Directors
The International Alliance for Phytobiomes Research has announced the appointment of Dr Matthew Ryan and Dr Natalie Breakfield as new Board members of the organization.
CABI helps map ferocious speed and likely cause of woody weed spread across Ethiopia
CABI scientists have helped map the ferocious speed and probable cause of a devastating spread of the invasive alien tree Prosopis juliflora (Swartz DC) across an area equivalent to half of neighbouring Djibouti in the Afar Region of northeastern Ethiopia.
Spread of dangerous waterweed in Southern Africa could be ‘devastating’, according to CABI scientist
CABI scientist Dr Philip Weyl has warned that a dangerous waterweed spreading across Southern Africa could have ‘devastating’ repurcussions on ecosystem functioning and utlization as well as life-supporting services such as fishing.