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CABI is delighted to announce the launch of CABI Multifunctional Landscapes. This is a new international, open access, peer-reviewed journal dedicated to advancing integrated landscape research through inclusive, transdisciplinary, and practice-oriented research. CABI Multifunctional Landscapes is developed in close partnership with 1000 Landscapes for 1 Billion People (1000 Landscapes), a global collaboration working towards a shared vision of thriving, sustainable landscapes.

A new policy brief by the UK-CGIAR Centre’s wheat enhancement project sheds important light on the impacts of the withdrawal of agricultural extension in Kenya. Written by researchers at Kenya Agriculture and Research Organisation and Norwich Institute for Sustainable Development, the brief documents how Kenyan farmers are struggling to access extension support, with the impact on women being felt the hardest.

CABI-led research has produced a comprehensive inventory of non-native invasive plant species across eastern and southern Africa. Through extensive roadside surveys, the study recorded nearly 107,000 plant occurrences and identified 708 non-native plant species across 11 countries. Kenya was found to host the highest number of non-native species (430), followed by Tanzania (341) and Malawi (313).

Ahead of the French Government-hosted One Health Summit on 7 April 2026, the International Plant Protection Convention has highlighted plant health’s central role in One Health. In light of this growing international support for integrating plant health, CABI’s One Health Hub reiterates its call to embed plant health into One Health strategies to safeguard food production, ecosystems, and human wellbeing.

A new article published in CABI Agriculture and Bioscience calls for a diverse, participatory approach that combines indigenous, local knowledge systems with modern technologies to tackle plant diseases and strengthen food security in Africa. This comprehensive review proposes a strategy for “One Plant Health” management across the continent and aims to address challenges such as climate change and emerging plant viruses.

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In 2025, CABI supported 26.4 million students, researchers, and practitioners through the CABI Digital Library, which is now available to over 13,600 institutions. We advanced our work in evidence for policy, providing decision-makers with trusted science-based knowledge content, launched the sustainable development tool, SDGenie, and strengthened our partnerships.

CABI has reached a significant milestone in its partnership with Ethiopia by signing a Host Country Agreement. This agreement enables the organization formally establish CABI’s office in the country, allowing it to operate more efficiently and deepen its impact. It also strengthens the long-standing partnership and reinforces the framework that allows CABI to mobilize its expertise, financing, and partnerships in close alignment with Ethiopia’s development priorities.

Fast-paced pest outbreaks and plant diseases are a constant threat to farmers’ crops and livelihoods in Duhok, Kurdistan Region of Iraq. Without timely training and advice by extension officers, farmers miss out on critical knowledge to combat these threats. To help close this information gap, agricultural extension teams tried a new approach by taking plant health messages directly to farmers.

CABI-led research published in the journal Biological Invasions suggests that the invasive prickly pear pest Opuntia stricta could cost sub-Saharan Africa USD 307 billion in lost livestock production over the next 50 years. The authors argue that current costs associated with the “loss” of forage growing under and near O.