Wheat for Food Security in Africa – Book of Abstracts Mullan, D.; Kosina, P.; Downess, A; Nemcova, B.; Quilligan, E. Wheat for food security in Africa conference: Science and policy dialogue about the future of wheat in Africa
“A key finding of our study related to gender is that rising labor force participation by women—especially if it rises faster than labor force participation by men—has a significant, positive effect on country-level wheat consumption.” …
OBREGON, MEXICO (5 March 2012) — Today began the third-ever meeting of the Wheat Yield Consortium, a unique group of scientists collaborating to dramatically increase wheat yields. The meeting is being held in Ciudad de Obregon, Mexico and will ru…
On 22 December 2012, two agricultural research organizations in Pakistan — National Agricultural Research Center, Islamabad, and Wheat Research Institute (WRI) Faisalabad, Punjab — received new Wintersteiger combine harvester and seeding machines f…
Gender mainstreaming in agricultural development is on the agenda of national governments and the international development community (for more information on CIMMYT and gender mainstreaming see “Integrating gender into WHEAT and MAIZE CRPs: A leap f…
