Jonathan Newby
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Cassava Program Leader - CIAT. Agricultural Economist working on smallholder livelihood projects. CGIAR Coordinator for Lao PDR
Lao People's Democratic Republ
Joined July 2009
RT @BiovIntCIAT_eng: 📢 The first cases of cassava witches' broom disease have been confirmed in French Guiana and Brazil. 🧑🔬 Together with….
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RT @CrawfordFund: 📹 🍠 🇻🇳 Chris McLennan reports on his recent journalist visit to Vietnam to cover the @ACIARAustralia funded cassava breed….
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RT @CrawfordFund: 🥔 🌱🧑🌾 Cassava: A lifeline crop, backed by Australian Research! Chris McLennan reports on his recent journalist visit to….
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RT @CrawfordFund: Of all Vietnam’s cassava fields! Lovely coincidence to meet Hung Ngoc Nguyen during a visit to @ACIARAustralia @BiovIntCI….
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RT @CrawfordFund: Constant battle but lots of smiles! Protecting cassava yield thru breeding for disease resistance for Vietnamese farmers….
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RT @makeshctcri: International Symposium on Tropical root and tuber crops will be held during 17-21 November 2025 at Thiruvananthapuram, K….
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RT @BiovIntCIAT_eng: 💡🍠 Have you heard of these disease-resilient #cassava varieties? 🌏 In #Vietnam, @ACIARAustralia and Alliance teams are….
news.tuoitre.vn
A cassava breeding project funded by Australia is being implemented in Vietnam to develop disease-resistant varieties that enhance yield potential and contribute to improving farmer livelihoods in...
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RT @CassDiseaseAsia: #CMD or #CBSD — take your pick,.#Viruses movin’ slick like a backstreet trick. #Whiteflies spread it like it’s just a….
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RT @AgdiaInc: In new studies published in "Scientific Reports and New Disease Reports", Dr. Wilmer Cuellar and his team from Alliance of Bi….
phys.org
Across the tropics, farming communities—an estimated 800 million people—rely on cassava for food and income. However, in recent decades, harvests have been decimated by rapidly spreading diseases. ...
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Happy Birthday 🎈 5 years since constructed, #NAFRI continues to use the @CassDiseaseAsia rapid multiplication tunnels in Laos 🇱🇦. With new resistant clones on their way from @BiovIntCIAT_eng Vietnam 🇻🇳 FutureSeeds is about to enter a new phase. @ACIARAustralia @BiovIntCIAT_eng
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RT @CassDiseaseAsia: New public-private #partnerships required to deliver disease-free motherplants & new #resistant varieties to a network….
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#Cassava farmers in Southeast Asia are WTP for clean planting materials & new varieties. Supporting market-based clean #seed approaches is an important component of a regional strategy for tackling the #CMD & #CWBD threatening livelihoods & industry.
alliancebioversityciat.org
In the midst of an industry-wide disease threat to cassava, researchers from the Alliance of Bioversity International and CIAT have found that farmers in Laos and Cambodia are willing to pay higher...
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RT @MICHAELSELVARA7: We’re excited to announce the publication of our article on AI-powered detection and quantification of Post-Harvest Ph….
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RT @WJCuellar: Disease Alert: The emergence of #cassava witches' broom #disease (#CWBD) in the Americas will require strong regional coordi….
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RT @JMPardo86: VSD #cacao and #CWBD could be sibling diseases, first time observing C. theobromae growing from cacao and cassava petioles a….
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@BiovIntCIAT_eng @WJCuellar @OrdoGil @JMPardo86 @WarrenArinaitwe @Analeiva013 @Khamla99 @Leibniz_DSMZ_en @SamarSheat @DrStephanWinte1.
nature.com
Scientific Reports - Isolation, genome analysis and tissue localization of Ceratobasidium theobromae, a new encounter pathogen of cassava in Southeast Asia
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Investment in #cassava disease 🦠 research 🔬 in Asia 🇱🇦 🇻🇳 🇰🇭 🇹🇭 paying dividends in LatinAmerica. @BiovIntCIAT_eng diagnostics developed in @CassDiseaseAsia supported by @ACIARAustralia 🇦🇺 @USAID 🇺🇸 confirm #CWBD in 🇧🇷🇬🇾 . @embrapa @Cirad 🇫🇷 @CGIAR .
revistacultivar.com
This is the first time that the fungus has been detected in crops in Brazil; the disease has the potential to cause major economic losses
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RT @WJCuellar: Si quieren conocer los últimos descubrimientos sobre enfermedades de #yuca en esta región, no se pierdan las presentaciones….
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