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Central to the issues of high levels of poverty in sub-Saharan Africa is low agricultural productivity. David Grzywacz, Steve Belmain and Phil Stevenson of NRI co-authored a paper just published in the journal 'Food Security', which explores how...
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Results of a survey of smallholder cotton fields in the main growing area of Tanzania, that were afflicted with what appeared to be a new disease that caused premature defoliation of the crop, have revealed a hitherto unreported resolution of the...
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Rats pose a terrible threat to people in many developing countries. Dr Steve Belmain of NRI stated his case in a public lecture at Medway yesterday, that proper rodent management will reduce poverty and improve people's livelihoods.
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NRI has been working with the Food Research Agency (FRA) and the World Food Programme on a pilot project to improve, monitor and evaluate grain quality control and to develop a mobile data collection system in the Katete District of Eastern Zambia.
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The EU FP7 GRATITUDE project, 'Gains from Losses of Root and Tuber Crops', recently held its midterm review at Plant Research International, Wageningen, Netherlands from 4 to 7 November 2013. It was attended by 15 members of the project, comprising...
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By popular request, after the success of the first biopesticide brokerage event for researchers and European crop protection companies, hosted in April this year at the University of Greenwich, the Enterprise Europe Network (EEN) is sponsoring a...
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NRI have begun work on a new project "Limiting the impact of cassava brown streak disease on smallholders, women and the cassava value chain", or "LimitCBSD", to mitigate the impact of virus diseases of cassava on farmers in eastern Africa. The...
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Students studying the MSc Food Safety and Quality Management (FSQM) programme at NRI must understand the principles and practical application of Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Point (HACCP), a food safety management system used globally by...
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A sonic installation that relies on the way male and female mosquitoes recognise members of their own species by 'singing' in tune with them, will be displayed at the Centre for Contemporary Arts in Glasgow from 31 October to 3 November 2013.
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Insect migration specialist Don Reynolds of NRI attended the first Management Committee meeting of a new European Cooperation in Science and Technology (COST) Action, namely 'European Network for the Radar surveillance of Animal Movement (ENRAM)'...
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