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CABI (Centre for Agriculture and Biosciences International) is an international not-for-profit organization that improves people’s lives worldwide by providing information and applying scientific expertise to solve problems in agriculture and the environment.
Our approach involves putting information, skills and tools into people's hands. CABI's 48 member countries guide and influence our work which is delivered by scientific staff based in our global network of centres.
CABI's mission is to improve people's lives worldwide by providing information and applying expertise to solve problems in agriculture and the environment.
We achieve our mission by:
- Creating, managing, curating and disseminating information
- Putting know-how in people's hands
- Improving food security through climate smart agriculture and good agricultural practices
- Helping farmers to trade more of what they sow
- Supporting farmers by increasing their capacity to grow better quality crops, and fight pests and diseases
- Bringing science from the lab to the field
- Protecting livelihoods and biodiversity from invasive species and other threats
- Combating threats to agriculture and the environment
We are committed to playing our part in helping the world reach Sustainable Development Goals. Here we outline areas of focus where we believe we can make significant contributions to improving lives across the globe.
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Displaying 46 - 50 of 71Abandonment of agricultural land: an overview of drivers and consequences.CAB Reviews
Agricultural activities and their complex effects on nature conservation, and the services that ecosystems deliver to humans are controversial. We present an overview of land abandonment, its driving forces and its consequences for landscape, biodiversity and humans. A descriptive metaanalysis of independently published studies highlighted the fact that the abandonment of agricultural land is a phenomenon mostly driven by socio-economic factors such as immigration into areas where new economic opportunities are offered to rural people.
The agricultural groundwater revolution: opportunities and threats to development
Community-based water law and water resource management reform in developing countries
The lack of sufficient access to clean water is a common problem faced by communities, efforts to alleviate poverty and gender inequality and improve economic growth in developing countries. While reforms have been implemented to manage water resources, these have taken little notice of how people use and manage their water and have had limited effect at the ground level. On the other hand, regulations developed within communities are livelihood-oriented and provide incentives for collective action but they can also be hierarchal, enforcing power and gender inequalities.
Irrigation water pricing: the gap between theory and practice