Climate change leads to more frequent and more intense droughts in Somalia. In a global context, weather shocks have been found to perpetuate poverty and fuel civil conflict. By relating regional and temporal variations in violent conflict outbreaks wi…
Archive for March, 2013
Wheat cultivar Sonalika
Sonalika is the most widely grown spring wheat (on larger area than Kalyansona), a major contributor to the Green Revolution. Under irrigated conditions in Mexico, this variety is about 90 centimeters tall. Credit: H. J. Braun/CIMMYT http://www.cimmyt….
Four decades of collecting mission data now online
Bioversity International is home to 3200 unique original field report documents – an invaluable history of plants that may have been lost from their fields and natural habitats over four decades. The passport data has now been extracted from all …
Bioversity International and Belgian university join efforts to support banana research
Bioversity International signed an agreement yesterday with the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven to support the world’s collection of banana and plantain germplasm. As a result, Bioversity will host its Musa germplasm collection at the new premises of …