News - 2003
Dr Guy Poulter is the new head of NRI. Originally an expert in fisheries, Guy has over 25 years experience of working for - and in - developing countries. He was previously Director of Operations at...
An NRI report "Facing the Challenge: NGO Experiences of Mitigating the Impacts of HIV/AIDS in Sub-Saharan Africa" has been published on-line. The report, edited by NRI Associate Joanna White...
It has been announced by the Royal Entomological Society that one of NRI's entomologists Dr Stephen Torr and his co-authors from Canada and Zimbabwe have won an award for the best paper published in...
NRI, in collaboration with the Institut de Recherches Médicinal et d'Etudes des Plantes Médicinales (IMPM/MINREST) in Cameroon and the International Foundation for Science (IFS), is organizing the...
A Ruminant Feed Expert is required to review the livestock farming systems in minority areas, propose methods of improving production through nutrition and provide training for dairy and beef farmers...
At the closing ceremony of the World Technology Summit 24-25 June 2003, it was announced that one of the five finalists in the Environment (Individual) section of the World Technology Awards 2003 was...
The famed explorer Sir Wilfred Thesiger died on 24 August 2003 in hospital at the age of 93. In a lifetime of travelling and exploration in the Middle East and Africa, often willingly enduring...
NRI land use planner Dr Robert Ridgway is visiting Kazakhstan from 18 September to 2 October to commence the implementation phase of the DFID-funded project "Land Use Plan for the Semipalatinsk Test...
The Vice-Chancellor of the University of Greenwich, Prof. Rick Trainor, has announced that Dr Guy Poulter is now confirmed as NRI Director. Formerly Director of Operations at NRI, Guy was appointed...
The post-harvest sector has the potential to contribute much more than it does to the livelihoods of poor people, but development efforts in the past have always been more focused on agricultural...
Andrew Westby, NRI's Director of Research and Professor of Food Technology, has been elected President of the International Society for Tropical Root Crops (ISTRC) at its triennial Symposium in...
NRI's Professor of Food Safety, Ray Coker, has been awarded a £45,000 SMART grant by the UK's Department of Trade and Industry to develop an instrument that will allow food wholesalers and retailers...