News - 2014
The reality of climate change, the threats it poses and the options for managing climate risks will be addressed at a University of Greenwich public lecture next week in Medway.
A reunion of former staff of two of NRI's predecessor units, the Anti-Locust Research Centre (A-LRC) and the Centre for Overseas Pest Research (COPR) was held at the Medway campus recently.
The Natural Resources Institute at the University of Greenwich has been shortlisted for a prestigious Times Higher Education Award.
Since the beginning of the crisis in Syria, the World Food Programme (WFP) has been providing huge amounts of aid relief to refugees and displaced people in and around the war torn country. In...
Rory Hillocks of NRI recently contributed to two chapters in the series of books 'Integrated Pest Management' co-edited by R. Pershin and D. Pimental. His chapters, written together with Derek...
Three senior academics have been promoted to the position of Professor at the Natural Resources Institute. The appointments are a key part of the University of Greenwich's ambitions to further raise...
NRI's new 'Postharvest Loss Reduction Centre' is helping to sustain the world's food supply, reduce our carbon footprint and make our world a greener place. It is doing this by promoting action to...
A new study published today by Chatham House, a world-leading UK based think tank, 'On Trial: Agricultural biotechnology in Africa' co-authored by David Grzywacz of NRI, looks at the issues that have...
In the Parliamentary Report entitled, 'Missing Food', published today, Parliamentarians of the All-Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) on Agriculture and Food for Development are calling on all...
Dr Bruno Tran, Grain Postharvest Scientist at NRI, recently contributed to the first in a series of seminars organised by the All Party Parliamentary Group for Agriculture and Food for Development...
The negative effects of pesticides on bees and other pollinators have been in the news a lot recently, but new research from NRI shows that the picture is not so simple and that pressures on...
New evidence has been uncovered that a new generation of 'super-rats' are emerging in Britain, which have almost 100% resistance, in some towns, to the commonly available rat poisons that can be...