Recent climate projections suggest there may be spots of optimism for food production and farmers’ livelihoods in Asia, but this is not cause for complacency about climatic impacts on agriculture in South-East Asia. Photo: N. Palmer (CIAT)
Archive for July, 2012
Rio+20 ‘ducked’ political realities: Time for South to show ‘political muscle and imaginative thinking’
SciDevNet’s David Dickson argues in an opinion piece last week that the outcomes of the June Rio+20 UN Conference on Sustainable Development illustrate that leadership from developing countries will be key to global sustainable development.
CGIAR Fund Update: June 2012 Issue
Read the June 2012 CGIAR Fund Update
IRRI supports Rio+20 action
In the wake of the U.N. Conference on Sustainable Development (Rio+20), Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has launched the Zero Hunger Challenge. IRRI is doing its part to help.
Strategic partnership to build African breeders’ capacities
The International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA) and the West Africa Center for Crop Improvement (WACCI) have signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) aimed at training plant breeders in Africa—a strategic move to boost the number of plan…