News - 2012
Please note that this event has been postponed to 11th April 2013
In many European countries today, the systematic use of pesticides is questioned because of their undesirable negative effects on...
At the Global Cassava Partnership meeting for the 21st Century (GCP21) in Kampala, Uganda on June 20th, Dr Mike Thresh, Emeritus Professor of Plant Virus Ecology of the Natural Resources Institute...
Smallholder farmers and other poor rural people in developing countries, such as pastoralists and artisanal fisherfolk, are expected to suffer some of the worst impacts of climate change in the...
Roughly one third of the food produced in the world for human consumption every year (approximately 1.3 billion tonnes) is wasted. A policy briefing in Brussels on June 26th on 'food losses and food...
Frances Hawkes, a PhD researcher at the Natural Resources Institute (NRI), is the first winner of the University of Greenwich 'Student of the Year' award. The energy she has put in to the University...
Monday August 20th is World Mosquito Day, celebrating the discovery of the role mosquitoes play in malaria transmission. On this day in 1897, Sir Ronald Ross made a breakthrough that would later earn...
A joint report by the Natural Resources Institute (NRI) and Concern Worldwide, calling for more targeted investment in agriculture for the poorest and most vulnerable farmers, was launched last year...
Don Reynolds, a scientist at the Natural Resources Institute (NRI), together with colleagues from Rothamsted Research, the UK Met Office and the Universities of Exeter, Oxford, York and Lund...
Experts at the Natural Resources Institute (NRI) are leading a major new project that will deliver knowledge to support the development of markets for cassava products in sub-Saharan Africa. The...
The 16th Triennial Symposium of the International Society Tropical Root Crops (ISTRC) this week is hosted by the Federal University of Agriculture, Abeokuta, Nigeria. More than 300 root and tuber...
NRI research confirms that there are tangible, significant and sometimes considerable economic, social, technical, organisational and empowerment benefits to smallholder families and estate workers...
Scientists from 42 countries around the world gathered in Nigeria for the 16th Triennial International Symposium of the International Society for Tropical Root Crops (ISTRC). Root and tuber crops are...