Announcements

Ronald Cantrell, Director General, IRRI, has resigned his position effective December 31, 2004. He is stepping down for health and family reasons.

William Dar, Director General, ICRISAT, has been given a new 5-year term of office beginning January 2005. The decision was announced at the 50th meeting of the ICRISAT Governing Board held in April 2004.

Scientific Recognition

Bram Govaerts, CIMMYT, won Belgium's Development Cooperation Prize for his thesis "Soil quality assessment of zero tillage wheat/maize trials in the highlands of Mexico."