News - 2010
An Inaugural Professorial Lecture entitled "To Spray, or not to Spray: That is the Question – Horticultural Entomology in the 21st Century" will be given by Professor Jerry Cross in the Pilkington...
The Report of a UK Parliamentary Inquiry into Global Food Security has been published and presented to the UK Parliament on 27 January 2010. Discussants at the launch event, in the Commonwealth...
In a recent article published in the Journal of Virological Methods (Abarshi et al., 2010, doi:10.1016/j.jviromet.2009.10.023), researchers from NRI have described the most cost-effective and highly...
NRI trainers, Jerry Cooper, Alan Cork and Hans Dobson, have successfully completed a series of well received IPM workshops for young researchers in three focus countries of the Association for...
Don Reynolds, a member of NRI?s Agriculture, Health and Environment Group, has co-authored a study published in Science*, which sheds new light on the flight behaviours that enable insects to...
Horticultural entomology in the 21st century Jerry Cross, Visiting Professor of Horticultural Entomology
Jerry Cross, Visiting Professor of Horticultural Entomology, gave his inaugural lecture to an...
The University of Greenwich has announced that it has appointed Professor Andrew Westby to be Director of the Natural Resources Institute (NRI). He will take up his new post on 1 May 2010 and will...
International Women's Day is a day to celebrate the success of women and to raise awareness of the struggles of women around the world. The Natural Resources Institute (NRI) of the University of...
NRI's Professor of Development Anthropology, John Morton, recently participated in the Annual Meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, an event attended by over 5000...
On behalf of the United Nations Word Food Programme (WFP), Dr Keith Tomlins, a Food Technologist at NRI has recently studied the feasibility of the local manufacture of fortified blended-foods in...
"In view of the current food and financial crises, high priority should now be placed on reducing postharvest losses." This was the view expressed by the Special Representative of the UN Secretary...
Global embassy representatives and international agricultural experts gathered in London today (1st April 2010) to mark the launch of a new independent journal on 'World Agriculture'...