“Forget Swarna! Go for Swarna-Sub1!” is the advice of Basant Kumar Rao, a rice farmer who took part in trials…
Consortium News Archive for April, 2012
Winning the Battle Against Deadly Wheat Fungus
When stripe rust disease strikes a susceptible wheat crop, the results are usually devastating. The fungus can spread like wildfire,…
Improved potato varieties ensure Peruvian communities have enough to eat
Excessive rains and the increased presence of late blight disease devastated Peru’s Cusco region in 2010, prompting the government to…
Getting to grips with India’s groundwater
Colin Chartres, Director General of the International Water Management Institute (IWMI), talks about groundwater management Farmers everywhere have used underground…
The role of research in feeding the world’s poor
According to current food security projections, there will be nine billion people on the planet by 2050. And agricultural…