A multi-disciplinary group of the CGIAR Research Program on Roots, Tubers, and Bananas (RTB), met in December of 2012 to discuss and plan the inclusion of gender, capacity building and knowledge sharing into RTB’s Impact Pathways.
Archive for February, 2013
Oklahoma State University students help CIMMYT researchers in Obregon
Nine Oklahoma State University (OSU) graduate students travelled to Ciudad Obregon to work on the refinement of a hand planter for farmers in developing countries with Ivan Ortiz-Monasterio, CIMMYT agronomist. During their stay, which lasted from 21 to…
An old-fashioned disease threatens ancient culture / emerging economy: TB in Ethiopia
‘Around 30 per cent of the nearly 3,000 dairy cattle from 88 herds around the capital, Addis Ababa, that were investigated for the study tested positive for bovine tuberculosis, while more than half the herds contained cattle that gave positive tests…
‘A Disease Called Poverty’, ILRI poster
ILRI’s ‘A Disease Called Poverty’ poster, created in 2000 (poster credit: ILRI/Susan MacMillan).
Bioversity International in 2013
Agricultural and forest biodiversity has the potential to make a difference in our world. We have chosen 12 topics to give you a taste of our work in 2013. We believe that a world in which smallholder farming communities in developing countries are thr…