News - 2014
The Gratitude Project seeks to reduce physical losses of cassava, during postharvest and processing and to add value to the waste products produced.
Colleagues at the Natural Resources Institute are sad to learn of the death of its former Director Anthony Beattie on 31 March 2014.
Anthony was Director of NRI, then part of the Overseas...
A public event was held in Canterbury recently, organised by NRI PhD student Hannah Scott, to understand the potential production and use of biochar (charcoal applied to soils) in Kent and the UK...
A landmark United Nations report on the impacts of climate change and the prospects for adapting to it has been released. Two NRI staff members, Professors John R. Porter and John Morton, have made...
A special issue of the international peer reviewed journal 'Food Chain' has been guest edited by Valerie Nelson from the Natural Resources Institute. February's 'Food Chain' issue brings together a...
A processing facility for indigenous natural products and a visitors' centre were opened at Opuwo in the Kunene region of Namibia recently as part of the Millennium Challenge Account-Namibia...
One year on from our last report on the Gates Foundation funded yam project in West Africa; Yam Improvement for Income and Food Security in West Africa (YIIFSWA), all project partners gathered at...
For International Women's Day 2014, NRI would like to draw attention to the critical issue of women's land rights. Women's secure land rights are also important in enabling women to access finance...
Climate projections indicate that increases in temperature will reduce crop yields in Mesoamerican countries and will particularly affect Arabica coffee, one of the region's major exports.
In spite of advances in crop protection, losses caused by pests, diseases and weeds remain stubbornly high. The situation is worse in developing countries where average annual crop losses have been...
The effectiveness of using fertility control to limit the serious threat to agriculture caused by rodents is to be investigated in a new project led by NRI with partners from the Pest Management...
NRI is implementing a European Union funded research project to 're-engineer' traditional African foods for international markets. Along with partners in France, Portugal, Italy, Ghana, Nigeria...