News - 2012
Livestock can act as a potential pathway out of poverty for rural producers and other actors throughout the value chain, but it is dependent on market access. There has been a long history of...
Biodiversity and associated indigenous knowledge around the world are eroding fast. The NRI project 'African Dryland Alliance for Pesticidal Plant Technologies' (ADAPPT) aims to bring together...
By Ben Bennett
Lipid oils extracted from plants are particularly good for use in cosmetics because they are very stable and can therefore carry other oils without going rancid: which is not a...
The Natural Resources Institute (NRI) has appointed a new Professor and a Reader to strengthen its programme of research on Climate Change, Agriculture and Natural Resources.
Chris Atkinson joins...
Don Reynolds of the Natural Resources Institute (NRI) was part of a large international team, led by the Spanish ecologist Constanti Stefanescu, which was assembled to map the whole migration circuit...
Bees are in crisis, and collapsing colonies and habitat loss threaten the pollination of some important crops. While much current research work focuses on bees, other pollinators, such as midges...
The first of the Vice Chancellor's public lecture series of 2012-13 will be given on Tuesday 27 November by Lord Boateng on "Beyond the Millennium Development Goals.. What next for Africa?"
Recent collaboration between researchers at the Natural Resources Institute (NRI) and the University of Leeds has led to the publication of a new working paper in the NRI series on sustainability...
NRI experts working on the project 'Agroforests: A critical resource for Megadiversity in Guatemala', have initiated studies to evaluate the biodiversity on coffee farms in Guatemala. Diego Pons from...
The issue of land rights and natural resource management in Mozambique is a challenge affecting millions of people. A recent study indicates that women in these areas experience only limited access...
Lord Boateng has called on the United Nations to put agriculture at the heart of African development.
The Natural Resources Institute (NRI) co-hosted a workshop last week with ISEAL - the international membership body for a range of sustainability standards. Participants represented Rainforest...