From local action to national impact: Pakistan’s emerging OECM story
Pakistan is exploring new ways to protect biodiversity beyond traditional protected areas, with local communities playing a vital role. Through sustainable land management and collaborative conservation efforts, these initiatives highlight the potential of Other Effective Area-Based Conservation Measures (OECMs) to safeguard ecosystems, strengthen climate resilience, and support livelihoods across the country.
International Day for Biological Diversity: Why local action matters
Marking the International Day for Biological Diversity 2026, this blog explores how CABI is supporting locally led, science-based action to restore ecosystems, manage invasive species, and protect biodiversity worldwide.
Valuing trusted knowledge in the age of AI
As AI systems increasingly use and reshape trusted knowledge, how should publishers respond? This blog explores practical approaches to pricing and licensing content for AI, drawing on insights from the GAIA project and CABI’s wider work on data governance.
Regional knowledge exchange advances pesticide risk reduction in Ethiopia
Across Ethiopia, smallholder farmers continue to face growing pressure from pests that threaten horticulture production, incomes, and food security. In response, many rely heavily on chemical pesticides, sometimes as the only available option. How do we shift from short-term pest control to long-term resilience? Increasingly, the solution lies in pesticide risk reduction approaches like Integrated…
Why data stewardship matters for understanding crop loss
CABI is strengthening data stewardship to improve how crop loss data is managed, shared and used. Through the GBCL and EDA projects, this work embeds FAIR principles, resolves data challenges, and supports the production of reliable, accessible evidence to inform decision-making on global crop loss.
Closing the gaps: Food safety and women’s empowerment in Uganda’s agrifood policies
A study recently published in Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems examines the connection between food safety and gender in Uganda’s agrifood policies. The research, led by CABI scientists and supported by CABI’s PlantwisePlus programme and AWARD, highlights how food safety is critical to public health, economic stability, and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). However, agrifood…
Evidence, partnerships, and impact
In 2025, CABI supported 26.4 million students, researchers, and practitioners through the CABI Digital Library, which is now available to over 13,600 institutions. We advanced our work in evidence for policy, providing decision-makers with trusted science-based knowledge content, launched the sustainable development tool, SDGenie, and strengthened our partnerships.
Reaching 1,000 farmers with plant health advice in Kurdistan Region of Iraq
Fast-paced pest outbreaks and plant diseases are a constant threat to farmers’ crops and livelihoods in Duhok, Kurdistan Region of Iraq. Without timely training and advice by extension officers, farmers miss out on critical knowledge to combat these threats. To help close this information gap, agricultural extension teams tried a new approach by taking plant…
Strengthening FAIR data systems for digital agriculture
CABI’s Enabling FAIR data sharing and responsible data use project is helping program officers, grantees, and national systems get more value from agricultural data. The blog explores how FAIR principles, the FAIR Process Framework, and model content licensing are applied to digital agriculture across Africa.
Transforming women’s empowerment in agrifood systems
Women in agrifood systems are essential. They constitute over 50% of the agricultural workforce (FAO, 2023), with roles throughout the food value chain supporting the production of over half of the world’s food. However, studies show that they produce 20-30% less than men. As a marginalized group, they face unequal control of and access to resources. If male-female differences in access and yields were overcome, the number of undernourished…