OBREGON, MEXICO (5 March 2012) — Today began the third-ever meeting of the Wheat Yield Consortium, a unique group of scientists collaborating to dramatically increase wheat yields. The meeting is being held in Ciudad de Obregon, Mexico and will ru…
Archive for March, 2013
Robert Zougmoré Overview CCAFS, incl. West Africa
How can CCAFS research contribute to improve the adaptive capacity in West Africa to climate change? Presentation held by Robert Zougmoré, Regional Program Leader for the CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security (CCAFS) …
Just where exactly are the threatened species?
A georeferenced database of threatened species becomes imperative as human activities encroach more and more on fragile ecosystems, say scientists.
Harvesting fish in Dinajpur, Bangladesh. Photo by Finn Thilsted, 2012.
ILRI vacancy: Research program leader – Livestock systems and the environment (open until filled)
ILRI seeks to recruit a senior scientist to lead its research program on Livestock Systems and the Environment (LSE), which contributes to the CGIAR Research Programs on Dryland Systems, Humid Tropics, Livestock and Fish, and Climate Change and Agriculture and Food Security (CCAFS). The research analyses the interactions among livestock and plant systems and the environment at a range of scales, from global to local, including the positive and negative impacts of livestock systems on the environment. Current research includes work on adaptation to and mitigation of climate change, water use and nutrient cycling, and combines empirical and modeling approaches. [...]