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Tucked away in the northwest corner of Namibia is the Kunene Region, an extremely arid environment that is home to the nomadic Ovahimba people, and a range of endemic plant species. Products are being developed from indigenous plants such as...
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Experts from NRI continued their training of early career scientists last week, as part of the European Union (EU) African, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) Science and Technology Project previously introduced, this time in Port of Spain, Trinidad. The...
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Food safety is a growing public health problem, and institutions across the world are required to work together to ensure that animal health, plant health and food safety regulations are duly applied.
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Private and public sector organisations from Thailand, Vietnam, Ghana, Nigeria, the Netherlands, Portugal and the UK came together at the Natural Resources Institute, in Kent UK last month to launch the new European Union Framework 7 funded project...
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The West African regional workshop on biopesticides, hosted in Accra on 20-21st March 2012, was held to mark the first successful registration of commercial environmentally friendly biological pesticides in Ghana.
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Professor John Colvin will present his Inaugural Professorial Lecture on Thursday 31 May 2012 on 'Insects, Plants and Viruses: Dynamic Interactions in a Changing World'. All are welcome to attend.
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Dr Ibrahim Mohammed, a recent PhD graduate from the Natural Resources Institute (NRI) of the University of Greenwich was awarded the 'Raymond/Roger Hull' prize for best poster presentation at the International Plant Virus Symposium, of the...
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Dr Peter Greenhalgh, Marketing Economist and former colleague at NRI, has been awarded the title of Visiting Fellow. Having worked for many years with what was then the Economics and Marketing Department at NRI, he is a recognized expert on...
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NRI has been successful in gaining funding from the Defra led 'Darwin Initiative' for a new 3 year project, named Agroforests: A Critical Resource for Sustaining Megadiversity in Guatemala, expected to start in April 2012. It is designed to improve...
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Rats are arguably one of the most neglected pest problems across the world. Rodents attack virtually any crop, and their damage and contamination of food is problematic at every stage of the food value chain. Despite this, accurate valuations of...
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