News - 2010
The Royal Entomological Society (RES) has awarded an Honorary Fellowship of the Society to Chris Haines, Emeritus Professor of Post-Harvest Technology at NRI. The award is for Chris's long-term...
Sweet potato is a very valuable crop widely consumed in sub-Saharan Africa. Sun drying of sweet potatoes is a traditional practice. There are efforts through the HarvestPlus Challenge Program to...
World-wide agricultural advisory services have a new coordination body called the Global Forum for Rural Advisory Services (GFRAS). NRI was commissioned by GFRAS to carry out one of the first studies...
NRI is assisting with the process of eliminating obsolete pesticides in Africa through its involvement in projects in Cameroon and Ethiopia. Obsolete pesticides are herbicides, fungicides...
For the last 15 years, Robert Cheke has been conducting research on the infamous pest, the Red-billed Quelea bird Quelea quelea. Known as "Africa's feathered locust" it is renowned for destroying...
Like locust's and other plagues of biblical proportions, local rat populations can sometimes rapidly grow to epidemic proportions, causing untold destruction to people's livelihoods. NRI?s rodent...
Professor Bob Cheke and Sanyi Tang just been awarded a certificate for the top cited article in the Elsevier published journal "Mathematical Bioscience" between 2008 and 2010. The article entitled...