Article Tag: CABI

The impact of the fall armyworm (FAW) pest on maize crops and communities in Sub-Saharan Africa were worsened by the COVID-19 pandemic, according to new […]

A study has determined the optimum height for a drone to fly and target desert locusts with biopesticides in order for it be most effective […]

A new information portal called Cocopest has been launched to help in the fight against pests and diseases of coconut – a crop that in […]

CABI’s Dr. Richard Shaw, senior regional director, Europe and the Americas, is among a group of international scientists who have published research in the Journal of […]

The first International Plant Health Conference was held in London 21-23 September 2022, co-organized by the UK’s Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs (DEFRA) […]

A study involving scientists from the Chinese Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs (MARA)-CABI Joint Laboratory (Joint Lab) has highlighted the mass rearing capabilities of […]

PlantwisePlus has been working in collaboration with partners in Kenya to implement a classical biological control strategy to manage papaya mealybug (Paracoccus marginatus). The papaya […]

A 'bio-superhero’ rust fungus has been released at Hell Wath Local Nature Reserve in Ripon, UK, to help tackle Himalayan balsam – one of the […]

Since 2011, CABI, with Defra funding, has been investigating the potential use of a biocontrol agent for floating pennywort which has the ability to grow […]

The first biological control agent against the perennial deciduous tree Russian olive has been approved for use in Canada. CABI, together with partners from the […]

A CABI-led study has developed the first forecasting models targeting the larval stages of fall armyworm (FAW). Using near real-time earth observation data and pest […]

CABI scientists have led new research that highlights the safety of a classical biological control agent against the invasive fruit fly Drosophila suzukii, commonly called […]

A new study led by CABI scientists has confirmed that a tiny mite, Aculus crassulae, shows promise to be used as a more environmentally friendly […]

A new CABI-led worldwide program – PlantwisePlus – has been launched to help support low and lower-middle income countries to predict, prepare themselves for and […]

CABI announced that Fawligen, a biological control product for managing the fall armyworm (Spodoptera frugiperda, FAW), has been formally registered by the Pest Control Products […]

The National Reference Collection (NRC), recently launched by CHAP (Crop Health and Protection, one of four UK Agri-Tech Innovation Centres) in partnership with CABI and […]

CABI joined a team of international scientists who sought to assess the distribution of natural enemies to control the brown marmorated stink bug (Halyomorpha halys) […]

The seed-feeding weevil Mogulones borraginis has been recommended for release in North America to help control the invasive noxious weed houndstongue, based on a petition […]

Under its Action on Invasives (AoI) program, CABI in Pakistan organized two training sessions for rearing biocontrol agents to manage fall armyworm (Spodoptera frugiperda) and […]

CABI scientists have led new research that reveals strong evidence that a natural enemy of the prolific Asian fruit fly Drosphila suzukii – previously believed […]

Together with Brazil’s agricultural research organization, Embrapa, CABI organized a webinar on integrated pest management (IPM) programs in big commodity crops in Brazil to celebrate […]

A new CABI-led study is calling for governments to reallocate subsidies to encourage the use of lower risk control options – such as biopesticides – […]

CABI scientists have revealed that the cochineal Dactylopius opuntiae ‘stricta’ biotype is more effective as a sustainable biocontrol in the fight against the invasive erect […]

The foundation of what is known today as CABI International was laid in the UK in 1910.  It is an inter-governmental not-for-profit organization, governed by […]

CABI has launched a dedicated online resource in Kenya aimed at raising the awareness and uptake of biocontrol and biopesticide products by growers and their […]

CABI scientists, as part of an international team of researchers, have discovered a new biological control in the fight against the noxious and invasive weed […]

Scientists from CABI’s laboratories in Egham, UK, have teamed up with Koppert Biological Systems, Leiden University and Probos, to work on two biological controls for […]

CABI has joined forces with biological control specialists Koppert Biological Systems to step-up a more sustainable fight against the tomato leafminer (Tuta absoluta). CABI and […]

Garlic, oranges, chilies and sex pheromones are among the potentially viable natural control measures that could be used against fall armyworm in Africa. Fall armyworm […]

Koppert and CABI will collaborate on making more biological controls available, following the success of earlier collaboration in Kenya in March of this year in […]

CABI and Koppert announced an agreement to formalize joint efforts on training plant doctors in Kenya during the Biocontrol Africa Conference in Nairobi. These trainings […]

A severe infestation of the papaya mealybug (Paracoccus marginatus) nearly wiped out papaya orchards in Pakistan before this largely farming South Asian country decided to […]

At a new recently opened FAS-supported laboratory in Islamabad, Pakistan, scientists will conduct research to help local farmers control harmful insects, reduce their chemical use, […]

Mark Schwarzländer, University of Idaho CALS professor of entomology and biological control of weeds, counts himself among the dwindling number of land-grant university researchers who […]