News

Popularisation of research results is an important part of NIBIO’s communication work. We publish several news items every week, mainly in Norwegian. News in English is also produced and can be found here in our english news archive.

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Sharing knowledge: VIPS on exclusive UN list for open source digital goods

Published 19.02.2021

NIBIO’s VIPS pest prediction platform has been chosen from almost 500 nominees to be on an exclusive list of currently 22 innovative openly licensed technologies.

High content of herbicide residues in organic fertilizers

Published 20.12.2020

This summer, hobby growers in Norway and Sweden experienced that their tomato and cucumber plants were not growing well. Pyralid herbicides in organic fertilizers were identified as a possible cause.

Coping with challenges in Kenyan biofuel project: First flooding, then COVID-19

Published 17.12.2020

This Biofuel4Kenya-project has faced unexpected risks this year; first a major flooding, followed by Covid-19 putting local communities in a highly vulnerable state.

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Interdisciplinary innovations boosting food security in Africa

Published 16.12.2020

InnovAfrica is an ambitious project, focusing on sustainable agriculture to improve food and nutritional security in Africa.

Keep your soils alive

Published 05.12.2020

This year’s World Soil Day is dedicated to the theme “Keep soil alive, protect soil biodiversity” – a key element of the Soil-improving Cropping Systems that are being tested as part of the SoilCare project.

How to tackle dollar spot disease on golf courses

Published 19.10.2020

Dollar spot is a foliar turfgrass disease that leads to uneven playing surfaces on golf courses around the world. It is a fungal disease that appears like small, yellow and round spots, the size of American dollar coins.

Sustainable bioeconomy vital for freshwater resources

Published 15.10.2020

If the bioeconomy with its utilisation of renewable land-based biomass does not develop in a sustainable way, the alterations of the rural landscape, in combination with expected climate change, will seriously affect our freshwater resources.

Sustainable agriculture technologies on a rise among African smallholders

Published 01.10.2020

A steadily increasing number of African smallholders are adopting sustainable agriculture technologies - one of the main objectives in the InnovAfrica project. In its mid-term review, EU’s external evaluation committee acknowledged the delivery of excellent results so far, with significant immediate or potential impact in the project’s six African case study countries.