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Hybrid rice for Latin America

A new public-private partnership across Latin America promises to boost rice productivity and could help bolster the region as an emerging food basket for the world. Launched in 2012, the Hybrid Rice Consortium for Latin America (HIAAL, by its Spanish …

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HarvestPlus – better crops, better nutrition

HarvestPlus, the joint CIAT- International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) programme to develop nutritionally-improved – or “biofortified” – staple food crops in Africa, Asia and Latin America, marked its ninth year with a number of new …

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Green Revolution in the Peruvian desert

Can the Terra-i tool only detect areas of natural vegetation loss? The answer is: “No”! Indeed, increases in the normalized difference vegetation index (NDVI) associated with vegetation growth, either natural or introduced, can also be detected.