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2-5 December 2007
John Kamanula presented work on the use of Cymbopogon nardus as a stored product protectant at the CHEMRAWN meeting in Stellenbosch, South Africa.

19-23 November 2007
1st annual project meeting. Project partners met to present progress on activities and to discuss plans for future work. The meeting was followed by a workshop at which experimental procedures for studying the effects of plants on field and storage insects pests were demonstrated. <Minutes of the annual meeting>.

17 October 2007
Presentation by Dr Phil Stevenson at Kew-Kings-Square Phytochemical meeting in London UK. An overview of the uses of pesticidal plants in Sub-Saharan Africa was presented to this triennial meeting of UK based phytochemists from Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, Kings College, University of London, the London School of Pharmacy and University of East London. The presentation focused on Securidaca longepedunculata with reference to how knowledge of the plant’s chemistry enables optimization of use. (see Jayasekara et al. 2002, 2003 & 2005).

16 October 2007
Stephen Nyirenda, John Kamanula and Phil Stevenson met the Honourable Deputy Minister of Agriculture Mr Binton Kuntsaira at a world food day commemoration to discuss work of the Department of Agricultural Research Services (DARS) and Mzuzu University including the work of SAPP.

SAPP project leader, Dr Phil Stevenson, and the Honorable Deputy Agriculture Minister, Mr Binton Kuntsaira, of Malawi.

October 2007
SAPP project article on mid-term workshop in Malawi reported in international science journal of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, the Kew Scientist (2007) 32:4.

23 July 2007
P. Stevenson interviewed for Malawi national radio.

Dr Phil Stevenson being interviewed for Malawi National Radio.

9-12 July 2007
Mid-term Year 1 meeting in Lilongwe, 9-12 July 2007. Project partners met to discuss progress and plan activities for the following six months. <Minutes of the mid-term meeting>.

SAPP project workshop participants at the first year mid-term meeting in Lilongwe, Malawi, July 2007.

12 March 2007
Press Release Zimbabwe
Press Release Malawi
Press Release Zambia
Press Release International

1 March 2007
Pesticidal plant research carried out by NRI and Kew in Ghana is featured in a BBC TV series called 'A Year at Kew'. You can download the video, but please note that this is a very large file (500MB) and you should not attempt to do so unless you have a high-speed broadband internet connection. The format of the video is DVD quality so your computer will need a video player installed such as Window Media Player (v10 or above) to watch it.

22-25 January 2007
Project inception workshop held at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, UK. Minutes of inception workshop, January 2007.

The Project Team at the Inception Meeting at the Jodrell Laboratory, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew

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