Many have criticised the Rio+20 summit as a vague talkfest with a outcome document that fails to achieve much at all. CIFOR has been pushing for forests to be integrated into the summit outcomes
Archive for June, 2012
Private investments – a fair deal for small-scale farmers?
Policies and regulations around biofuels and food production are crucial for the benefit and well-being of both farmers and the environment. Photo: N. Palmer (CIAT). Blog post by Cecilia Schubert
Taking an ecosystem approach to small scale fishing in the tropics
The WorldFish Center will conduct the multi-region project from offices in each of the four participating countries. During the first year of the project, a participatory diagnosis model will be used in a two step process to engage fisheries stakeholde…
Phenotypic diversity in Cajanus species and identification of promising sources for agronomic traits and seed protein content
Upadhyaya, H D and Reddy, K N and Singh, Sube and Gowda, C L L (2012) Phenotypic diversity in Cajanus species and identification of promising sources for agronomic traits and seed protein content. Genetic Resources and Crop Evolution. pp. 1-21. ISSN 15…
Development and exploitation of a set of contiguous segmental substitution lines in pearl millet [Pennisetum glaucum (L.) R. Br.]
Basava, R K (2012) Development and exploitation of a set of contiguous segmental substitution lines in pearl millet [Pennisetum glaucum (L.) R. Br.]. PhD thesis, Osmania University.