IFPRI Senior Research Fellow David Laborde, who contributed to “The Subsidy Habit”, chapter 6 of the 2012 Global Food Policy Report, recently described how agricultural subsidies in rich countries such as the US and EU as well as emerging economies…
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Case studies: A hard look at GM crops – Nature.com
Nature.comCase studies: A hard look at GM cropsNature.comThat was shown by researchers at the International Food Policy Research Institute in Washington DC, who scoured government data, academic articles and media reports about Bt cotton and suicide in…
First EST Transfer Workshop Addresses Science, Research Capacity – IISD Reporting Services
First EST Transfer Workshop Addresses Science, Research CapacityIISD Reporting ServicesEphraim Maduhu Nkonya, International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI), remarked that in Sub-Saharan Africa, agricultural technology advisory services focus on …
CIMMYT promotes China-Australia collaboration on wheat improvement
The Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences (CAAS) and Murdoch University, Australia, with financial support from the Chinese Ministry of Science and Technology and the Australian government, officially opened the Australia-China Joint Center for Whea…
NEXTGEN Cassava project sets precedent for open access data sharing in agricultural research
Six months after the launch of the $25.2M NEXTGEN Cassava project at Cornell University, scientists on the project have released Cassavabase, a database that promotes open access data sharing.