News - 2012
The Natural Resources Institute (NRI) have created a brand new and innovative Masters degree entitled MA Rural Development Dynamics to focus on the social and economic aspects of rural development, a...
The Natural Resources Institute (NRI) welcomes the publication of the recently released Inquiry Report from the All Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) on Agriculture and Food for Development entitled...
Debbie Rees and John Orchard of the Natural Resources Institute, together with Graham Farrell, a technical writer and editor specializing in plant health and analysis, have compiled a book published...
Science and technology in Sub-Saharan Africa: more support for capacity-strengthening is needed, says the Natural Resources Institute of the University of Greenwich, in evidence to House of Commons...
Our MSc Natural Resources programme routes have been renamed. Students will now be able to apply for the awards: MSc Sustainable Environmental Management, (formerly MSc Natural Resources: Sustainable...
Small-holder farmers are the focus of a new and innovative EC-funded €4.7m project entitled: Farm Risk Management for Africa (FaRMAf) that will be testing exciting new financial instruments in order...
Cassava and yam are important food security crops for approximately 700 million people. However, physical and economic losses that occur after harvest during processing and marketing can be as high...
As recently published by BBC News Africa, Andy Jarvis of the International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT) has reported on the climate change hope of cassava: "Whilst other staples can suffer...
Staff at NRI has been engaged in a wide range of studies relating to Fairtrade since the late 1990s in Latin America, Africa and Asia, including a number of on-going pieces of work that will be...
C:AVA project: Awoyo village, Ogun State, Nigeria
For International Women's Day, the Natural Resources Institute (NRI) is celebrating the women it works with all over the world. The Institute works...
Experts from NRI gave training last week to 37 early career scientists in Papua New Guinea, as part of an EU African, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) Science and Technology Project, in how to write...
Rats are arguably one of the most neglected pest problems across the world. Rodents attack virtually any crop, and their damage and contamination of food is problematic at every stage of the food...