News - 2010
The Jim Mount Centre is a collaborative venture between NRI and East Malling Research (EMR). It combines EMR's facilities and expertise on UK horticulture with NRI's expertise on tropical crops. Neil...
Fifty years of curiosity driven research on pheromone-based communication was celebrated in a recent invited review paper co-authored by Prof Alan Cork, NRI, and colleagues Prof Peter Witzgall (SLU...
Pastoralists, often referred to as 'nomads', move with the livestock on which they depend, grazing on communally managed pastures. Some development agencies estimate that there are up to 200 million...
Malaria kills between one and two million people a year. International initiatives such as Roll Back Malaria are committed to halving the burden of malaria through the use of anti-malaria drugs and...
Few developing countries have managed to overcome the huge cost of successfully eradicating animal borne diseases such as Foot and Mouth Disease. Even if they manage to meet the stringent rules for...
Research carried out by a team from the Natural Resources Institute has been named as one of the ten most important discoveries to be made in a UK university over the past 60 years. A poll of UK...
The Times Higher Leadership and Management Awards 2010 were designed to celebrate the leadership, management, financial and business skills of the Higher Education Sector whilst showcasing...
NRI team in major international project to improve the forecasting and control of armyworm in Africa
A recent international scientific meeting in Nairobi "Winning the war against armyworms" on 24-25th May marked the start of a major new DFID-funded Research Into Use initiative to control African...
David Hall and his team at NRI are part of a consortium that is among the winners of funding in the recent competition for New Approaches to Crop Protection run by the UK Technology Strategy Board...
NRI researcher John Morton has been selected for a key role in the next report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), due to appear in 2014. Together with Dr Purnamita Dasgupta of...
The All Party Parliamentary Group on Agriculture and Food for Development was established in October 2008 in response to the food price spike of 2007/8. Formed by a small group of NGOs and interested...
Participatory plant breeding (PPB) is an approach, developed over the last few decades, in which farmers and researchers work together closely, usually in the farmers′ environment and each leading in...