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Margaret Haggis, a former employee of the Natural Resources Institute (NRI), has recently published a fascinating book called 'Tales of travels with and without a porter' based on her diary and field note entries assembled during her fieldwork in...
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Keith Tomlins, Professor of Food Science at the Natural Resources Institute of the University of Greenwich gave his Inaugural Professorial Lecture 'Let Them Eat Cake: Food Quality and Acceptance in Africa' yesterday, 12 June 2013 to an audience of...
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Reducing food losses after harvest is an important means of improving food availability. Since the food crisis of 2006/2007 the international community has taken an increased interest in loss reduction.
A special issue of Rural21 (The...
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A new report prepared by Dr Robert Black of the Natural Resources Institute has recently been published by the Asian Development Bank (ADB) that assesses existing border controls on agricultural products in the Central Asia Regional Economic...
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Over 90,000 of the world's poorest farmers, many of them women living on less than a dollar a day, are taking advantage of new opportunities to increase their incomes, thanks to the C:AVA (Cassava: Adding Value for Africa) project, an ambitious...
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Parliamentarians of the All-Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) on Agriculture and Food for Development are calling on the UK Government, and specifically the Department for International Development (DFID), to invest in agriculture to combat the...
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Keith Tomlins, Professor of Food Science at the Natural Resources Institute of the University of Greenwich will be giving his Inaugural Professorial Lecture 'Let Them Eat Cake: Food Quality and Acceptance in Africa' on Wednesday, 12 June 2013. All...
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All partners of the FP7 project 'Gratitude' gathered recently (22nd-26th April) in Bangkok, Thailand to conduct a successful mid-term review planning meeting.
Presentations were given by each of the project's eight research package leaders...
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Professor Andrew Westby, Director of the Natural Resources Institute (NRI), welcomed over 90 delegates to a recent meeting at The University of Greenwich on "Biopesticide Market Opportunities". The meeting on 11th April brought together...
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Cosmetics made from the Namibian myrrh, Commiphora Wildii, a natural product used by the indigenous Himba people as body scent, will be on display during the Adventure Travel World Summit (ATWS), 26-31 October 2013. This will increase...
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