Sustainable Crop Production with CABI PlantwisePlus Digital Tools
To respond to the needs of farmers and the systems that support them, PlantwisePlus helps countries to predict, prevent, and prepare for plant health threats and reduce crop losses. This ensures that smallholder farmers produce more food and improve its quality.
The PlantwisePlus Toolkit contains tried and trusted digital tools that support farmer advisors’ decision-making. It provides easy access to plant health and crop protection websites, mobile apps and online training courses.
This open access tool provides information on registered biocontrol and biopesticide products worldwide. Available online and offline, it helps growers and agricultural advisors identify, source and correctly apply bio control and biopesticide products against problematic pests in their crops.
The PlantwisePlus Knowledge Bank contains over 15,000 crop and pest management factsheets, guides and videos, a pest diagnostic tool and country resources, including pesticide lists and diagnostic support.
CABI Academy’s range of training courses and certifications develop and build plant health skills, strengthening the advice available to farmers. The flexible, interactive courses are available online or offline via the app.
Access PlantwisePlus Knowledge Bank factsheets offline with the PlantwisePlus Factsheets app. Available on Android and iOS, the app gives farmer advisors access to the most up-to-date, relevant plant health material with the safest advice.
An easy-to-use, free Android app that helps calculate how much pesticide to use when treating crops. The different calculations featured on the app ensure just the right amount of product is applied, saving money and minimizing the risks associated with pesticide overuse.
The CABI BioProtection Portal App is an searchable directory that enables users to find biopesticides and biocontrol products registered in their country.
The CABI Academy brings together CABI’s expertise in crop health, agricultural advisory services and digital development to create a range of online training courses and certifications that build capacity and strengthen the advice available to farmers.
The CABI Academt’s interactive digital courses allow individual, students, teachers and trainers in agricultural education institutions and the workplace to grow their plant health knowledge so they can provide the best possible advice to farmers .
Benefits:
Accessible: Access the materials online or download via our platform’s mobile app for use offline
Flexible: Use the materials for step-by-step self-study or for “dipping in” to support a specific teaching or learning need.
Badges: Receive completion badges to share on social media
Certification: Successful completion of a certification assessment brings a CABI Academy certificate.
Certification:
Students can gain CABI Academy certificates in three levels.
- Foundation: For those new to the subject area and work under supervision
- Practitioner: For those with some experience in the subject area, who wish to demonstrate they are able to work with minimal supervision.
- Advanced: For those with experience in the subject area and want to demonstrate their ability to take a lead
Getting started with the CABI Academy
- Visit the CABI Academy website to browse our catalogue of courses.
- Create a CABI Academy account
- Login to your account
- If your country or organisation has a subscription with CABI Academy,go directly to the course you wish to take. You will be able to access all the modules
- If your country or organization does not have a subscription, you will need to purchase as annual Access Pass