News - 2011
On 26th July 2011, the annual awards ceremony was held at Rochester Cathedral. Although not all graduates were able to attend the ceremony it was a pleasure to welcome more than 25 higher degree...
A Guidebook on Technologies for Climate Change Adaptation in the Agriculture Sector, co-authored by Jeremy Haggar, NRI's Head of Agriculture, Health and Environment, has just been published by UNEP...
Dr Gabriella Gibson (NRI, University of Greenwich) and Prof Ian Russell (University of Sussex) and their team of scientists have discovered that mosquitoes use that irritating whine to communicate...
The impact of postharvest losses of staple cereal grains in Sub-Saharan Africa is being shown to the world on YouTube. Following the publication by the World Bank of 'Missing Food: The case of...
A very successful training course on proposal writing, research methods and intellual property rights for early career researchers and extensionists working with tropical root and tuber crops from...
Dr Helena Posthumus of NRI attended the 5th World Congress on Conservation Agriculture in Brisbane, Australia (26-29 September 2011). Conservation Agriculture is a farming system approach based on...
In Arusha, Tanzania, a new facility has been built for the mass production of a biological control agent for African armyworm with technical help from David Grzywacz and colleagues at NRI.
A team from NRI recently gave presentations at the Standards and Trade Development Facility (STDF) Working Group meeting at the World Trade Organisation (WTO) in Geneva about their work on the...
We are pleased to announce several new publications by NRI authors on aspects of climate change and agriculture.
Scientists at the University of Greenwich are in a race against time to tackle a deadly virus threatening to cause a famine in Eastern Africa.
An NRI and Concern Worldwide joint report was launched on Monday at the Houses of Parliament, which calls for more targeted investment in agriculture for the poorest and most vulnerable farmers.
Building on a long history of research and development on integrated pest management [IPM] technologies for agriculture in developing countries and in the UK, NRI has inaugurated the European Centre...