At the start of 2013 there were some 870 million rural people living on less than 1.25$ per day, most of them living in Asia and Africa…
Consortium News Archive for January, 2013
Coffee + bananas: a climate smart combination
Growing coffee and banana together is generating more income for smallholder farmers, and can help them cope with the effects of climate change…
African Union Commission and CGIAR Consortium form new strategic partnership
Agreement to enhance collaboration in advancing a Science and Technology Agenda for African Agriculture Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, 15 January 2012…
Evolution, Impact, and Partnership
A New Year brings a somewhat arbitrary but often helpful opportunity to reflect on the activities of the past 12 months…
The role of science in the scramble for natural resources
If we hope to feed the more than nine billion people that are projected to inhabit our planet by 2050,…