Whats New Archive

We are pleased to announce that the CPP database is now up and running. Click here or go direct to the ‘CPP database’ tab – Introduction, Project summaries and Virtual library.

You will notice other changes to the site. ‘Current projects’ section no longer exists – and annual reports are now included under ‘CPP outputs’ along with updated highlights and leaflets, and new entries for ‘Impact timelines’ and ‘Lessons learnt’.

Building on the successful development of separate registration procedures for biological control agents of pests in Kenya, a CPP project led by the Natural Resources Institute has replicated the success in Ghana. Click on CPP news to read about this exciting development.

The Keynote speaker at the recent Pathways out of Poverty Conference, Dr Faustin Mwape, Agricultural Adviser of the NEPAD Secretariat, gives his ‘Perspective’ on ‘Research for results’ in the latest edition of New Agriculture. See more on our Communications page.

Our long awaited database is due to be launched later this month.

Providing summaries of project achievements and a virtual library of publications, extension materials and other project outputs, this easy-to-search database will aim to cover CPP projects from the second five years (2000-05) of DFIDs 10-year Renewable Natural Resources Research Strategy.

The Real IPM Company, Kenya, has made it to the finals of ‘The World Challenge’, a BBC and Newsweek competition, sponsored by Shell, aimed at finding individuals or groups from around the world who have shown enterprise and innovation at a grass roots level. To find out why this is of interest to CPP visit our Communications page.

ALSO

Latest publication Rice Blast Proceedings now available as pdf files. Please go to Publications

TVE’s (Television Trust for the Environment) Earth Report: Hands On – Green Beginnings features two CPP projects:Back to their roots – INNOVA project, Bolivia Turning the worm – African armyworm, TanzaniaBoth have recently been transmitted on BBC World and feature on TVEs website. Click here to read about Turning the worm (and then click on Back to their roots in right panel TVE Series 6).

Visit our Communications page to read more.

This conference is being organised by the Association of Applied Biologists with the Crop Protection Programme (CPP) and the Plant Sciences Research Programme (PSP), and will be held on at Homerton College, Cambridge. It will present examples of the use of a solid scientific foundation to achieve development impact from three of the UK Department for International Development’s Renewable Natural Resources Research Strategy (DFID RNRRS) programmes – CPP, PSP and Livestock Production Programme – over the ten years of DFID’s RNR research strategy. Click pdf  for Provisional programme and booking form or Word (for booking form only). More infomation is available on the Communications page.

Did You Know...? is a new publication produced by NR International show-casing a number of highly successful projects managed by NR International. Click on

This conference is being organised by the Association of Applied Biologists with the Crop Protection Programme (CPP)

The proceedings of the major international rice blast disease workshop held in Accra, Ghana, 05 March 2003, and hosted by CPP project leader, Dr Sreenivasaprasad (Warwick-HRI) with the Africa Rice Center (WARDA) and Savannah Agricultural Research Institute (SARI) of Ghana, were published late in 2004 and will be available shortly as pdf files via the CPP publications page. Rice Blast in West Africa: Characterisation of pathogen diversity, key screening sites and host resistance will provide an invaluable reference manual for researchers involved in rice blast research and management, particularly where rice intensification is taking place in West Africa.