Helping Pakistan strengthen livestock production and access to safer crop protection solutions
Pakistan is working to strengthen livestock production and crop protection through better feed knowledge and science-based biopesticide regulation. A new CABI-led initiative will build technical capacity, support regulatory systems and help farmers improve animal health, productivity and access to sustainable crop-protection solutions.
Plant Parasitic Nematodes – the world’s most important crop pathogen?
By Richard Sikora, Danny Coyne, Johannes Hallman and Patricia Timper Plant parasitic nematodes – overlooked, neglected, little known and mostly out of sight; surprising then that they cause billions of dollars’ worth of damage to global crop production annually. In the tropics and subtropics they persistently undermine production, result in massive waste of disfigured and unmarketable…
How soil health is integral to One Health
One of a series of blogs written by CABI editors for One Health (#OneHealth) Day on November 3rd 2016 "It is difficult to rate the importance of the different soil functions, since all are vital to our well-being to some extent. However, the function of supporting food and agriculture worldwide is fundamental for the preservation and advancement of…