A new interactive tool for identifying nearly 200 different weed species of lowland rice in East and West Africa was recently unveiled at the Africa Rice Center (AfricaRice). The tool is built on a comprehensive knowledge base that can be accessed onli…
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Les experts lancent un outil d’identification des principales adventices du riz en Afrique
Un nouvel outil interactif en vue de l’identification de près de 200 différentes espèces d’adventices de bas-fond en Afrique de l’Est et de l’Ouest a été récemment dévoilé au Centre du riz pour l’Afrique (AfricaRice). Cet outil s’ap…
Media has uncommon opportunities for promoting biodiversity conservation
With the impact of climate change already visible through extreme weather events and with a worsening scenario projected for the future, the genetic wealth in biological diversity could be the key to providing ecological and economic stability to count…

UN Meeting on Biodiversity: 8-19 October, Hyderabad, India
Press release: ROME, October 8, 2012 – Agricultural and tree biodiversity must be sustainably managed and conserved to help achieve world biodiversity targets under discussion at the XI Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Divers…
ICRISAT and ICAR host 6th international conference on legume genetics and genomics
Legumes, known as food for all as they represent a healthy and affordable dietary source for all types of people, rich or poor, are the subject of a big, international scientific conference here in Hyderabad.
