Highlights from 2025: Most read blogs
As 2025 draws to a close, we’ve reviewed the numbers to highlight this year’s achievements on the CABI Blog, from pest risk reduction and innovative agricultural initiatives to addressing crop loss and earning global recognition. Revisit this year’s top 10 most popular blogs…
Collaboration in plant health, biosecurity, and pest data management strengthened through ASEAN Pest Database
The 2nd workshop on the Association of South East Asian Nations (ASEAN) Pest Database, aimed at strengthening regional collaboration in plant health, biosecurity, and pest data management, has been held in Putrajaya, Malaysia.
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.
A guide to isolating pathogens with Dr Phil Taylor
CABI has produced a new video guide to the isolation of fungal and bacterial pathogens from diseased plant tissue.
Addressing plant pandemics to solve food security in Africa
On World Food Day held recently, CABI’s Dr Dennis Rangi, Director General, Development, asked how we can apply the determination and urgency shown to the COVID-19 pandemic to plant pandemics on the African continent in order to help food security.
Turning Point for Phytosanitary Risk Management?
International trade in plants and plant products has transformed the world in both positive and negative ways. The introduction of destructive non-native pests is one of the negative consequences. Effectively managing pest risk associated with international trade while also promoting the benefits of trade is most effectively accomplished when it is a shared responsibility across…
Nature holds power to minimise impacts of climate change
After a further series of stark warnings about climate change from prominent scientists, and the experience of clear ‘runaway’ climate change impacts culminating in the Siberian heatwave this summer, the need to act on climate change has never been more urgent. Relying on technology The world faces the dual task of rapidly and radically reducing…
CABI scientist defends PhD thesis on risks of pest and disease movement via plant and seed exchanges
CABI scientist Dr Iva Franić has successfully defended her PhD thesis looking at the risks of pest and disease movement via plant and seed exchanges. Dr Franić, co-supervised by Dr René Eschen, Research Scientist, Ecosystems Management, and Risk Analysis and Invasion Ecology at CABI, obtained her PhD degree from the University of Bern in Switzerland,…
The demise of banana has been greatly exaggerated, but…
By David R Jones The demise of the banana has been in the news regularly since a 2003 article in The New Scientist suggested that the crop may be extinct within 10 years. However, recent data indicate that between 2000 and 2017, global production of bananas grew at a compound annual rate of 3.2%, reaching…
One Health: free online course from FutureLearn features CABI authors
One Health is about connectedness: "the collaborative efforts of multiple disciplines working locally, nationally, and globally to attain optimal health for people, animals, plants and our environment”. On One Health Day, November 3rd 2016, CABI's editors held a One Health (#OneHealth) Blogathon to focus attention, contributing a total of 6 blogs to Handpicked… and Carefully Sorted, each…