Sorghum farmersin Maharashtra collect larger panicles for use as seed the following year.
Archive for July, 2012
Could new interactive maps help preserve last “roadless” areas?
A movement aiming to preserve the earth’s last roadless areas hopes their new set of online maps will inspire policy makers avoid building highways through places of high biodiversity.
Investing in small-scale aquaculture: the triple bottom line
In 2008 over 90% of global aquaculture production was in developing countries with the industry often dominated by small and medium scale enterprises. This growing demand for aquaculture products presents opportunities for improving the incomes and liv…
David Ellison at Rio+20 – Forests and climate change
David Ellison from the Institute for World Economics discusses the role of forests in changing weather patterns and their potential for climate change mitigation, on the sidelines of CIFOR event Forests: The 8th Roundtable at Rio +20.
‘Science’ features C4 rice
IRRI’s William Paul Quick discusses the progress and science behind the creation of C4 rice in a paper published in Science.