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Opinion:
Balancing Power
Continuing our occasional series of personal views from CGIAR
researchers and partners, we include the following opinion piece
submitted by colleagues in CIFOR's Forests and Governance
Program. |
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Recognition
Comes Home to Papas
The UN Seed Award celebrates a project to enhance to marketability
of Peruvian native papa - and so improve potato
farmers' livelihood. |
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Volte-Face
for the Volta
A Challenge Program guides a basin board in analyzing stakeholder
networks to help turn round governance of the Volta River
basin. |
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Baring the
Goodness of Berries
A new partnership aims to conserve, evaluate and promote a
heretofore underused collection of berry, grape and potato
germplasm. |
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Durable,
Delicious, Delovely Durum
Wheat for making pasta, couscous and semolina is bred for
resistance to leaf rust and also for the quality traits that the
market demands. |
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Mapping the
Way Forward
The new Atlas of the Ethiopian Rural Economy bridges the
gap between knowledge and effective policy formulation for rural
development. |
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Sweet Light
Alternative
The biofuels revolution offers environmentally friendly
income-generating opportunities for dryland farmers and even the
landless. |
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A Different
Saline Solution
Rice farmers on 1 million hectares of salt-affected coastal areas
of Bangladesh stand to benefit from new cultivars bred with
Saltol.
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Go with the
Environmental Flow
The amount of water that should be left in a particular river
depends to its situation, but, globally, too much water is taken
out. |
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Fueling
Cassava's Popularity
A breakout crop of the 21st century is poised to attract even more
attention as a raw material for refining into biofuel. |
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Cassava
Market Bonanza
A newly opened factory in Nigeria provides a secure market for 400
tons of fresh cassava per day grown by 20,000 poor farmers
nearby. |
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Better
Health for Livestock
Three recent developments improve the control of livestock diseases
new and old, thereby protecting poor people and their income. |
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