Empowering the next generation: Strategies for youth-inclusive agricultural training and engagement
Ahead of International Youth Day on Tuesday 12 August 2025, Deogratius J. Magero, CABI’s Youth Manager, outlines seven key strategies – drawing from CABI’s Youth Engagement Strategy – to help ensure agricultural training and engagement are truly youth inclusive.
Strengthening food safety systems: Zambia hosts Codex training for national stakeholders
Zambia has taken a significant step in bolstering its food safety framework by hosting a comprehensive hands-on training workshop in Livingstone. Supported by the Codex Trust Fund and the African Union Inter-African Bureau for Animal Resources (AU-IBAR), the training aimed to build the capacity of national stakeholders and experts on Codex procedures and the effective…
“Land is life”: Farmers join scientists on newly launched ethics review committee at CABI in Africa
“We are not just growing crops. We are growing trust, dignity, and resilience. And that starts with being seen, heard, and involved from the beginning.”  Phyllis Nduva, Farmer and Cooperative Leader “Research must always be discussed before it starts. People need to know what’s coming, and how it affects them.” Joseph Kahunga Mwangi, Retired Teacher…
‘Under the microscope’ to mark World Microbiome Day: CABI’s work in the field
To mark World Microbiome Day 2025 (Friday 27 June), CABI takes a look back at its recent work – putting the microbiome ‘under the microscope’ to see how this community of micro-organisms live together in a particular ecosystem where humans, animals, and plants all have their own unique microbiomes.
Public and private sector partnership seeks to increase sustainable potato production in Chile
CABI is working with the Agricultural Research Institute (INIA) in Chile and the Croda Foundation to help increase sustainable potato production of the crop including supporting 300 smallholder farmers reduce their reliance on chemical pesticides.
Empowering farmers through digitalisation: Strengthening the future of the cotton industry
When it comes to farmer advisory, are we really able to advise? That was the question posed to Katherine Cameron, CABI’s Head of Digital Advisory Tools, at the Better Cotton Conference 2025 which took place recently in Izmir, Turkey.
Biosecurity and skills development workshop brings together key players in Africa’s plant health ecosystem
CABI has convened a plant biosecurity training and skills development workshop bringing together key players in Africa’s plant health ecosystem keen to help the continent’s smallholder farmers improve their livelihoods and food security.
Managing the pathogens threatening St Helena’s biodiversity and food security
Conclusions from four-year research looking into the dieback of critically endangered trees The remote island of St Helena is a small speck in the vast South Atlantic Ocean, renowned for its rich history and isolation. It is the United Kingdom’s second-oldest overseas territory, after Bermuda.
Training workshop in Malawi shifts focus to effective data management practices as part of MaDiPHS project
CABI has delivered a three-day refresher technical training workshop in Malawi aimed at encouraging greater effective data management practices as part of the Malawi Digital Plant Health Service (MaDiPHS) project. Henry Mibei, Manager, Digital Development, Africa, and Gideon Abegunrin, Data Policy Analyst, conducted the training for more than 30 people from 10 different organizations including the…
Lessons in AI Governance from the GAIA Project
Generative AI is starting to reshape how agricultural advice is produced, shared, and used — but the shift comes with both opportunities and challenges. For smallholder farmers, agriculture advisory chatbots and AI-based diagnostic tools could offer faster, more localised, and scalable support. They are often adopted by farmers directly, whilst in the best cases they…