“Improving rural livelihoods by reducing crop losses, with emphasis on Eastern Africa”

TAA East Anglia 5th Annual seminar at David Attenborough Building, Cambridge, 9th May 2018. Jointly hosted with Global Food Security and CamPlantsHub. Two papers were presented. Philip Taylor of CABI spoke on? Plantwise: a programme to extend extension and improve plant health systems?. Luke Braidwood, of Plant Sciences, then spoke on? Maize Lethal Necrosis (MLN): using next-generation sequencing to characterise and develop genetic resistance to new disease outbreaks, such as MLN?. Participants were then given an informative tour of the David Attenborough Building by Elizabeth of the Cambridge Conservation Initiative. The full text of the Plantwise paper will be published in Agriculture for Development No 34, Summer 2018. Click on the web link below to read abstracts of both papers.