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19 May, 2020

PRISE pays dividends with farmers in Kenya heeding vital pest…

Sixty percent of farmers who took part in a pilot SMS service run by Pest Risk Information Service (PRISE) and Precision Agriculture for…
9 March, 2020

Five, four, three, two, one – blast off! Students keep…

Around 250 students from the University of Nairobi, Manguo Secondary School and Visa Oshwal Primary School were part of a 400-strong…
21 January, 2020

Space-age pest monitoring features at UK-Africa Investment Summit 2020

The CABI-led Pest Risk Information Service (PRISE), which uses space-age technology to provide farmers with an early warning of potentially devastating pest…
13 January, 2020

PRISE project supporting Plant Doctor training in Malawi

In early December 2019, the Pest Risk Information Service (PRISE) project ran a series of workshops across Malawi to engage with Plantwise…
10 October, 2019

Space-age pest monitoring pays dividends for farmers in Kenya

Space-age technology to provide farmers with an early warning of pest outbreaks, which could devastate their crops and livelihoods, is…
24 June, 2019

Farmers in Malawi to benefit from space-age technology in fight…

Farmers in Malawi are the latest to benefit from a CABI-led consortium, funded by the UK Space Agency, which is providing…
2 August, 2018

PRISE: Kenya Stakeholder Workshop July 2018

Earlier this month, members of the Pest Risk Information Service (PRISE) consortium held a stakeholder workshop in Kenya to update…
18 July, 2018

Plant clinics, pests and pads of paper

“We’ve arrived everyone. Off the bus”. Ten journalists, myself and five other CABI staff disembark eager to write our own…
24 May, 2018

From satellites to stem borers: using earth observation to forecast…

Globally, over 500 million smallholder farmers provide food for two thirds of the world’s population. With 40% of crops lost…
6 December, 2017

Space-age technology for fight against crop-devastating pest outbreaks

Last night, the Pest Risk Information Service (PRISE), which uses state-of-the-art technology to help inform farmers in sub-Saharan Africa of…
29 September, 2017

PRISE: speaking to the end user – pest alerts for…

After 2 hours drive, we arrive in Rufunsa District located approximately 150 kilometres east of the Zambian Capital, Lusaka. After…