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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 Russell and Bill Clark respectively, present case...
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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 academic standards and become one of the top 50...
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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 reduce losses and waste within food supply chains,...
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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 prevented modern agricultural biotechnology from...
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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 governments and donors to urgently scale up and better...
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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 (APPG Ag4Dev).
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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 pollinators can come from a variety of sources.
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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 bought over the counter. Professor Steven Belmain, an...
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A research article has just been published, the first of its kind, by Maruthi Gowda, Reader in Molecular Plant Pathology at NRI, on identifying resistance of cassava to the Cassava Brown Streak Disease (CBSD).
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A new research report by a team from SOAS (School of Oriental and African Studies) has received significant press attention in recent days. We welcome this study as a valuable contribution to the overall study of Fairtrade impact. However, to take...
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