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Now, Phase
Seven
The Science Council is committed to ensuring that the CGIAR System
is well positioned to meet the challenges inherent in its current
phase of effectively mobilizing global science. |
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Prize
Investments
Two projects that were ealready winners when singled out for
Innovative Marketplace Awards have used the prize to build on their
success. |
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The Poverty
Trap
World Day Against Child Labor in Agriculture focuses attention on
the sector with the most child workers and on the corrective role
of education. |
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Of a
Feather
A broad partnership sees 80 laboratory staffers in 37 African
countries trained to detect bird flu- and provides a model for
future cooperation in disease control. |
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Water
Enough to Eat?
The Comprehensive Assessment of Water Management in Agriculture
answers pressing questions about water, land and food production in
its book Water for Food, Water for Life.
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Last Crop
Standing
A new chickpea variety survives drought in Turkey's Central
Anatolia region while other crops fail. |
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Change in
the Air
Global warming threatens to affect rice production across the
globe, but little is really known about the likely impacts or what
can be done about them. |
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Triple
Play
Three international agricultural research Centers join forces to
boost rice production in sub-Saharan Africa and stem the drain on
national coffers caused by rice imports. |
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Pooling
Resources
An innovative project helps HIV-affected farm families in Malawi
integrate aquaculture and agriculture to double their income and
boost household nutrition. |
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Keen on
Quinoa
As quinoa finds international appeal - and, paradoxically, falls
out of the diet of the Andean people who grow the nutritious grain
- a new machine takes the pain out of processing it. |
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Two by
Two
The new National Partners Initiative capitalizes on CGIAR Center
relationships with local partners by pairing their intellectual
property experts. |
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Trading
Margin
Central African countries consider policy initiatives to enhance
legal cross-border trade and, at the same time, gain better control
of crime and contraband. |
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Double
Agent
Caterpillars that devour crops and cause extensive harvest losses
also provide to farmers a ready means to respond to the
threat. |
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Royal
Visit
The International Potato Center welcomed Princess Anne of the
United Kindgom. |
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Tapping
Talent
The Gender and Diversity Associates Jamboree takes place with the
theme "Going for Great in 2008". |
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