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Professor Rick Hodges and Dr Tanya Stathers, of the Natural Resources Institute (NRI) have been working with the UN World Food Programme (WFP) to develop a "Training Manual for Improving Grain Postharvest Handling and Storage".
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Coinciding with Fairtrade Fortnight, Jeremy Haggar, department head of Agriculture, Health and Environment at the Natural Resources Institute (NRI) was invited to speak today at the Twin-Fairtrade conference 'Make Climate Change your Business,...
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In the lead up to the G8 summit in June, Hanneke Lam, Economist at the Natural Resources Institute (NRI), gave a presentation yesterday at a Parliamentary hearing on 'Financial Services for Smallholder Farmers'.
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NRI Professor Robert Cheke has written a report that will contribute to the Africa Adaptation Programme (AAP) of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) on the possible climate change effects on health in Lesotho.
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The main cotton growing area in Tanzania has recently been affected by what appears to be a new disease, afflicting most of the crop in that area.
Temporarily named 'Premature Defoliation Syndrome' (PDS), the disease causes leaf distortion, where...
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Agriculture in the "garden of England" may be dramatically different in the decades to come but, with the right planning, farmers will be able to adapt to the challenges of climate change. That's the message from Professor Chris Atkinson of the...
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A new paper examines the impact of declining winter chill on the production of temperate perennial crops in the northern hemisphere. Winter chilling is a measure of the requirement for a period of cool temperatures during dormancy, below a...
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Vitamin A deficiency is a major public health issue in sub-Saharan Africa. In Nigeria, 20% of pregnant women and about 30% of children under five are estimated to be deficient in vitamin A. Vitamin A deficiency leads to Nyctalopia ("night...
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The University of Greenwich's Natural Resources Institute has received a grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to support research to detect damaging viruses, which can reduce the yield of valuable yam crops for smallholder farming...
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The Natural Resources Institute (NRI) have recently presented their findings of a systematic review on the impact of capacity strengthening of agricultural research for development (AR4D) in developing countries during a seminar at the UK...
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