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Thematic Focus: Agriculture and Food Security
Millions
Fed
Profiles in success against hunger
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Interview with
Papa Seck
Papa Seck, Director General of the Africa Rice Center, warns of
the continent's continuing vulnerability to food crises and
describes vigorous measures being taken to strengthen domestic
production.
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Research Highlights
Stealing a
March
The project Seeds for Needs races to protect future food security
by pre-selecting and testing crop varieties naturally adapted to
expected climate conditions.
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An
Indispensable Animal
A project to strengthen food and nutrition security in Central
Africa by improving the use of livestock forages recently acquired
a new experimental guinea pig - literally. |
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Salvation
on a Shoestring
Improved varieties and cropping practices help smallholder farmers
in Ecuador's remote Saraguro Valley achieve food security
without leaving their beautiful home. |
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Making the
Most of a Mineral
A feeding study finds that wheat bred for high zinc content raises
the intake of this vital micronutrient, promising to improve
nutrition security for the staple-dependent poor. |
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Savanna
Smiles
Refined agronomic practices and crop varieties improved to
withstand environmental stresses help farmers realize the vast
agricultural potential of northern Nigeria. |
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Towering
Success
People displaced by war in Sri Lanka enrich their diets by planting
vertical vegetable gardens that are resource efficient, cheap to
establish and even portable. |
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Not a
Featherweight
The erstwhile "orphan crop" pigeonpea is attracting
research attention spurred by its versatility, productivity under
difficult conditions and high nutritional value. |
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Sticking
with Rice
Farmers in the uplands of Southeast Asia may climb out of poverty
by diversifying into cash crops, but many continue to grow rice as
well for home consumption. |
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Maize Grown
on Trees
Green fertilizers gain ground in Malawi as affordable and
sustainable improvers of soil health, crop yields and food
security. |
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Low-Hanging
Fruit
Forests complement farming to secure food for the rural poor, but
this requires finding a balance between forest conservation and
converting forestland to agriculture. |
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Breeder's Delight
The Generation Challenge Programme's new Molecular Marker
Toolkit is a Swiss Army knife for breeders of 19 crops essential to
maintaining global food security. |
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Participatory Resilience
The Systemwide Program on Participatory Research and Gender
Analysis expands its research to strengthen food security and
gender equity in the face of climate change. |
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Keeping
Track of Food Prices
As food prices in East and Central Africa refuse to fall, a
regional initiative is helping decision makers cope. |
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Diverse
Results
Women and the nationals of developing countries increasingly
diversify the ranks of international agricultural researchers, but
diversity in senior management lags. |
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Inside the CGIAR
Update on
the Implementation of CGIAR Reforms
The design phase of the reforms is complete, and actions are now
being taken to implement them, with the aim of transforming the
CGIAR into a more open, effective and efficient partnership.
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