Currently, there is increased focus on the methods in which public interventions stabilize agricultural markets. The subsidization of private storage is one of the options advocated. However, the efficiency of such an instrument is still being discusse…
Archive for September, 2012

Rethinking a cassava crop model
The week from 7th -10th of August a meeting was held at CIAT headquarters between crop modelers and physiologists from CIAT, and the maintainers and developers of the DSSAT-CROPSIM-CASSAVA crop model with the purpose of discussing the improvement of th…

Who is working in agricultural biodiversity? – Take the survey
If you are organizing activities to promote agricultural biodiversity we would like to hear from you. Bioversity International are carrying out a short survey to identify new ways of sharing information using modern technology. Survey available in Engl…
Resistance to foliar diseases in a Mini-core Collection of Sorghum Germplasm
Sharma, R and Upadhyaya, H D and Manjunatha, S V and Rao, V P and Thakur, R P (2012) Resistance to foliar diseases in a Mini-core Collection of Sorghum Germplasm. Plant Disease. pp. 1-26. ISSN 0191-2917 (In Press)

CIMMYT student awarded best poster at the National Biosafety Conference, Kenya
Murenga Mwimali, a PhD student in plant breeding at the University of Kwazulu Natal, South Africa, currently hosted at CIMMYT-Kenya, was awarded the best student poster at the first National Biosafety Conference in Nairobi, Kenya, during 6-9 August 201…
