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We're looking for an early career scientist for a lab-based role in our UK biopesticide team, working on fungal biopesti...
29/05/2026

We're looking for an early career scientist for a lab-based role in our UK biopesticide team, working on fungal biopesticide studies and insect efficacy testing.

If this sounds like your kind of work, apply here ➡️cabi.org/careers

Biostimulants come in two main types: microbial and non-microbial. Microbial biostimulants include beneficial fungi and ...
29/05/2026

Biostimulants come in two main types: microbial and non-microbial.

Microbial biostimulants include beneficial fungi and bacteria, while non-microbial types include substances like amino acids and plant extracts.

Examples include 👇

In Uganda, over 1.3 million foodborne illness cases are diagnosed every year. More than 60% are linked to fresh and peri...
28/05/2026

In Uganda, over 1.3 million foodborne illness cases are diagnosed every year.

More than 60% are linked to fresh and perishable foods, the parts of the food chain where women do most of the work.

New research, supported by AWARD Fellowships and our PlantwisePlus programme, finds that while Uganda's agrifood policies mention gender, few address the structural barriers that limit women's access to resources, training, and decision-making.

Women's influence on the policies that govern food safety is rated as weak or very weak across the board.

Uganda is currently developing a National Food Safety Policy. The research argues that's an opportunity, but only if gender is built in from the start, not added as an afterthought.

Learn more: https://ow.ly/HcqJ50Z3jgx

Across Sri Lanka, farmers can bring sick crops to a clinic for a diagnosis.They arrive with leaves, samples, and questio...
27/05/2026

Across Sri Lanka, farmers can bring sick crops to a clinic for a diagnosis.

They arrive with leaves, samples, and questions. A trained plant doctor examines them, gives a diagnosis, and issues a prescription.

The advice covers what pest or disease is actually present, whether spraying is necessary, and what safer alternatives exist.

Clinics also run practical demonstrations on safer pesticide use while promoting integrated pest management as an alternative approach.

More than 540 clinics now operate across the country, run through government and local institutions. They're held in accessible locations, often markets. And the data from every consultation feeds back into national pest surveillance.

The papaya mealybug doesn't just attack papaya, it targets 50+ plant species, making it one of the most damaging invasiv...
26/05/2026

The papaya mealybug doesn't just attack papaya, it targets 50+ plant species, making it one of the most damaging invasive pests in tropical agriculture.

Know how to spot it - and stop it - before it reaches your crop. ⬇️

Spot the pest, read the symptoms, and get the diagnosis right!Our online course builds the skills to identify common pes...
26/05/2026

Spot the pest, read the symptoms, and get the diagnosis right!

Our online course builds the skills to identify common pests, interpret what your plants are telling you, and navigate the grey areas that trip up even experienced practitioners.

Practical guidance for farmers, extension workers, and agricultural students.

Enrol today 💻➡️https://ow.ly/hx4t50YWxeZ

In Kenya's Lake Bogoria National Reserve, three million birds, including the world's largest lesser flamingo population,...
25/05/2026

In Kenya's Lake Bogoria National Reserve, three million birds, including the world's largest lesser flamingo population, share their habitat with an invasive tree.

Prosopis juliflora spreads in dense, thorny thickets. As the birds attempt to land in the dark, they become entangled and die from their injuries.

Coordinated removal efforts across the reserve are now reducing flamingo deaths and reopening wildlife corridors that prosopis had blocked.

Learn more: https://ow.ly/jmw950Z2SCo

708 non-native plant species spread across 11 countries.A decade of roadside surveys across eastern and southern Africa ...
22/05/2026

708 non-native plant species spread across 11 countries.

A decade of roadside surveys across eastern and southern Africa has produced one of the most comprehensive inventories of invasive plants in the region. This has given governments and conservation managers the baseline data they've often lacked.

Kenya recorded the highest number of non-native species (430), followed by Tanzania (341) and Malawi (313). The most frequently recorded species was Lantana camara, appearing over 5,500 times across the survey area.

Roads are one of the main pathways for invasive species spread, which makes roadside surveying a cost-effective early warning system. The dataset has already been cited in over 400 further studies.

Learn more: https://ow.ly/LQgw50Z2Sx7

A cactus is quietly devastating livestock farming across sub-Saharan Africa.The invasive prickly pear Opuntia stricta bl...
22/05/2026

A cactus is quietly devastating livestock farming across sub-Saharan Africa.

The invasive prickly pear Opuntia stricta blocks access to grazing land, injures animals, and causes death when its spines lodge in livestock's digestive systems. New research estimates it could cost the region $307 billion in lost livestock production over the next 50 years.

A small sap-sucking bug, already in use in South Africa and Kenya, is significantly reducing the impact. The cost of scaling it across Africa would be a fraction of the losses it would prevent.

On , it's a sharp example of what invasive species actually cost, and what nature-based solutions can do about it.

The plains around Lake Natron in northern Tanzania have been home to Maasai pastoralists for generations. Then the fast-...
22/05/2026

The plains around Lake Natron in northern Tanzania have been home to Maasai pastoralists for generations. Then the fast-growing invasive tree Prosopis juliflora started taking over.

The piercing spines of the tree injured livestock and thickets blocked seasonal routes to pasture and forced Maasai women to take more dangerous routes to water sources.

Through a CABI-led initiative funded by Darwin, local communities learned to identify, cut, and uproot the trees before they could re-establish.

Peer-to-peer teaching has continued to spread the work further. Nomadic herders now pull up the smallest prosopis plants they spot on their travels.

The community continues funding and sustaining the work themselves by pooling resources, including contributing goats worth over $1,200 to feed the workers clearing the land.

A reminder, on , of what community-led conservation can look like on the ground

Invasive plants are taking over waterways across Europe, and conventional methods to control them are costly and damagin...
21/05/2026

Invasive plants are taking over waterways across Europe, and conventional methods to control them are costly and damaging to the wider environment.

But, two nature-based alternatives are working.

The weevil Listronotus elongatus and the mite Aculus crassulae are specialist organism that only target the invasive aquatic weeds floating pennywort and Australian swamp stonecrop.

UK trials have shown the biocontrols suppressing their target species, allowing native vegetation to recover. In 2025, the approach was expanded to the Netherlands for the first time.

Learn more on # : https://ow.ly/GWgh50Z2Ohi

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