Archive
NRI's Visiting Professor of Insect Behaviour, Glyn Vale, has been awarded an OBE in the Queen's Birthday Honours list. Glyn, who is an Honorary Fellow of the Royal Entomological Society, receives the award "for services to controlling and...
- Details
-
An initiative, C:AVA - Cassava: Adding Value for Africa ,led by the University of Greenwich's Natural Resources Institute in close partnership with organisations in five African countries - Ghana, Nigeria, Uganda, Tanzania and Malawi - aims to...
- Details
-
The University of Greenwich's Vice-Chancellor Tessa Blackstone learnt about the production, processing and marketing of cassava during her recent visit to Ghana. The VC was visiting Accra to see aspects of the University's Tabeisa Project, which...
- Details
-
Between November 2007 and early February 2008, NRI was delighted to welcome eight trainees from the People's Republic of China, who attended courses in Conservation Ecology, Tools for Sustainability and Tropical Forest Ecology and Management. All...
- Details
-
The University of Greenwich has won a prestigious Queen's Anniversary Prize for Higher & Further Education, for the work of the Tabeisa Project to encourage and support entrepreneurship in Africa. The Tabeisa Project is led by Professor John...
- Details
-
Professor Robert Cheke of NRI – a specialist on migrant pests such as quelea birds, locusts and armyworms – has published a commentary on recent research examining thousand-year long data sets. The article 'Thinking Long Term' appeared in the...
- Details
-
A team led by NRI's Reader in Veterinary Entomology, Dr Stephen Torr, has been shortlisted for the prestigious Times Higher Award for 'Research Project of the Year', for work on controlling tsetse fly in Africa, to reduce the fatal disease of...
- Details
-
On 8-9 October 2007, NRI hosted a small, but important, workshop to analyse the services needed by farmers in developing countries in order to obtain better access to markets, and to consider how those services should be funded and delivered.
- Details
-
The editors of The Journal of Experimental Biology have awarded their journal's 'Outstanding Paper Prize for 2007' to NRI's Visiting Fellow in Ecological Entomology, Dr Don Reynolds, and four colleagues from Rothamsted Research for their paper...
- Details
-
NRI welcomes the award of the Nobel Peace Prize to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), jointly with Al Gore. The Nobel Committee's announcement notes that "Through the scientific reports it has issued over the past two decades,...
- Details
-