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Frances Hawkes, a PhD researcher at the Natural Resources Institute (NRI), is the first winner of the University of Greenwich 'Student of the Year' award. The energy she has put in to the University and the community of Medway has contributed to...
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Roughly one third of the food produced in the world for human consumption every year (approximately 1.3 billion tonnes) is wasted. A policy briefing in Brussels on June 26th on 'food losses and food waste' addressed some of the concerns that...
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Smallholder farmers and other poor rural people in developing countries, such as pastoralists and artisanal fisherfolk, are expected to suffer some of the worst impacts of climate change in the decades to come. Many of these people already live...
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At the Global Cassava Partnership meeting for the 21st Century (GCP21) in Kampala, Uganda on June 20th, Dr Mike Thresh, Emeritus Professor of Plant Virus Ecology of the Natural Resources Institute (NRI) received the Golden Cassava Award in...
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Please note that this event has been postponed to 11th April 2013
In many European countries today, the systematic use of pesticides is questioned because of their undesirable negative effects on ecosystems, animal species, and human health. As a...
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Nick Nathaniels, Lebai Nsemwa
The Natural Resources Institute (NRI) has been commissioned by the Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security (CCAFS) programme of the CGIAR to test the CCAFS 'Farms of the Future' approach, which introduces...
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New bumblebee research from scientists at the Natural Resources Institute (NRI) and Queen Mary, University of London teaches us how bees cope with complex visual environments in nature. Guided by scent and vision, foraging bumblebees are known to...
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Insect pests are a major threat to food production everywhere, but they are especially devastating in Africa where poor farmers are unable to afford chemical pesticides. Concerns about the environmentally damaging effects of pesticide use are also...
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Among the UK commitments at the Rio Earth Summit in 1992 was the establishment of the Darwin Initiative, which promotes conservation in countries rich in biodiversity, but poor in economic resources. Since its establishment it has financed over 700...
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The Natural Resources Institute (NRI), in collaboration with the Institute of Development Studies, has completed a four-country study assessing the impact of Fairtrade cotton. Covering Mali, Senegal, Cameroon and India, the study identifies the...
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