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Don Reynolds is a co-author of a paper just published (9 March 2011) in Proceedings of the Royal Society B. The study used specially-designed radars to compare the migratory performance of Silver-Y moths and songbirds migrating between their summer...
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NRI is pleased to support the International Women's Day Centenary to celebrate women's economic, political and social achievements around the world.
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Over the last decade, Fairtrade sales increased dramatically, reaching €2.89bn globally by the end of 2008. In line with this growth there is increasing demand to demonstrate the difference that engagement with Fairtrade is having for...
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NRI welcomes the major new report from the UK Government Foresight Programme The Future of Food and Farming: Challenges and Choices for a Sustainable Future.
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The University of Greenwich was strongly represented at the Ministerial Conference on Higher Education in Agriculture in Africa which was held in Kampala, Uganda on 15-19 November. The Conference was hosted by the Government of Uganda and organised...
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Professor Bob Cheke and Sanyi Tang just been awarded a certificate for the top cited article in the Elsevier published journal "Mathematical Bioscience" between 2008 and 2010. The article entitled "Models for integrated pest control and their...
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For the last 15 years, Robert Cheke has been conducting research on the infamous pest, the Red-billed Quelea bird Quelea quelea. Known as "Africa's feathered locust" it is renowned for destroying millet, sorghum and rice crops throughout...
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Like locust's and other plagues of biblical proportions, local rat populations can sometimes rapidly grow to epidemic proportions, causing untold destruction to people's livelihoods. NRI?s rodent expert, Dr Steve Belmain, has co-edited a book about...
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NRI is assisting with the process of eliminating obsolete pesticides in Africa through its involvement in projects in Cameroon and Ethiopia. Obsolete pesticides are herbicides, fungicides, rodenticides, nematicides, insecticides, including...
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World-wide agricultural advisory services have a new coordination body called the Global Forum for Rural Advisory Services (GFRAS). NRI was commissioned by GFRAS to carry out one of the first studies by this new organisation. The study was divided...
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