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1. 2010-05-25 Conservation agricutlture
(training & education/Training events)
Conservation agriculture - Advanced course El Batán & Obregón, MEXICO 25 May - 24 June 2010 The CIMMYT CA course links the advances and multidisciplinary approach to sustain

2. 2010-08-29 Molecular plant breeding at MSU
(training & education/Training events)
...ersity Plant Biotechnology Resource and Outreach Center in collaboration with the Institute of International Agriculture and the Plant Breeding and Genetics Program. It will be designed not only to ...

3. regional consultations on the PBBC survey results
(Central Accordion section/Central Accordion category)
...iscuss and recommend appropriate strategies to strengthen capacity to use plant genetic resources for food and agriculture (PGRFA). The discussion and analysis process for sub-Saharan Africa (SSA...

4. Paganini Michela
(who we are/GIPB team and contributors)
...rge of developing and updating of the Knowledge Resource Center. Michela holds a Master of Science in tropical agriculture. She is Italian and also fluent in English, French and Spanish. ...

5. Guimaraes Elcio
(who we are/GIPB team and contributors)
...etics and Plant Breeding. From 1989 to 1996 he worked as rice breeder at the International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT), in Colombia. At the end of 2001, he became a senior officer at FAO. I...

6. Mercier Violaine
(who we are/GIPB team and contributors)
Violaine Mercier is Agronomist, holding a Master Degree in Tropical Agriculture and another one in Agricultural Development and Economics, graduated in France. During and after her studies, she work

7. Hershey Clair
(who we are/GIPB team and contributors)
...plant breeding from Cornell University, USA. He was a cassava breeder at the International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT) in Colombia for 13 years. Since 2002 he has been editor of Plant Breed...

8. Plant breeding programs in Belize
(organizations & networks/national organizations and programs)
...rs. Exports are dominated by primary commodities mainly sugar, banana, citrus and fisheries products. Domestic agriculture on the other hand, includes rice, maize, beans, root crops, vegetables, poult...

9. Plant breeding programs in Burkina Faso
(organizations & networks/national organizations and programs)
...f the 4 institutes of the CNRST (Centre National de Recherches Scientifiques et Technologiques) specialized in agriculture, environment and animal sciences. Its mission is the management of agricultur...

10. Plant breeding programs in Bolivia
(organizations & networks/national organizations and programs)
An estimated 2% of Bolivia’s land area is devoted to arable farming and permanent crops. Dry agriculture is the rule, and the most important crops are potatoes, corn, barley, quinoa, habas, wheat, a

11. Plant breeding programs in Jordan
(organizations & networks/national organizations and programs)
...n-making processes. Constrained by limited arable land, and scarce water, mineral and energy resources, Jordan agriculture contributes only with 3.7% to the GDP. Jordan’s geographical and climatic reg...

12. Plant breeding programs in Guatemala
(organizations & networks/national organizations and programs)
...s with activities in plant breeding:  Public Institutes Institute of Sciences and Technology of Agriculture (ICTA), Website available in Spanish ICTA is the national agricultural resear...

13. Plant breeding programs in Guyana
(organizations & networks/national organizations and programs)
...imatic conditions, abundance of natural water resources and adequate topographic and soil characteristics make agriculture an important sector of Guyana's economy, accounting for around 30% of the GDP...

14. Plant breeding programs in Togo
(organizations & networks/national organizations and programs)
...ical climate that varies from southern regions (with four seasons) to the northern regions (with two seasons). Agriculture and fishing constitute the most important sectors which supply jobs and incom...

15. Plant breeding programs in Gabon
(organizations & networks/national organizations and programs)
...abon. Both of them are public but they are under two different ministries. While CIAM is under the Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock and Rural Development, LBV is under the Ministry of Education. C...

...hinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, the China Agricultural University and the United States Department of Agriculture's Agricultural Research Service (ARS) has produced the world's first integra...

...s were scaled-up. Dr. Oyewole Ajala, Team Leader and Maize Breeder at the International Institute of Tropical Agriculture sought government support for the seed sector to overcome the limitation pois...

...lowlands of Thailand, farmers grow modern high-yield rice. In the hills, the Karen people practice traditional agriculture, growing ancestral varieties of rice with traditional practices. Expert farme...

...een adopted by the European Parliament and Council. In line with FAO's urgent call for increased investment in agriculture after decades of neglect, the Food Facility underscores the need to refocus t...

...atter of hours.  A team of scientists at Cornell University (Ithaca, NY), the United States Department of Agriculture-Agriculture Research Service (USDA-ARS), Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (Cold ...

...da invests C$13 million for research to combat wheat rust 9 July 2009 Ottawa, Ontario, Canada Today, Federal Agriculture Minister Gerry Ritz announced that the Government of Canada has committed $13...

...ricultural production. She’s conducting this work thanks to a four-year, one million dollar U.S. Department of Agriculture organic research grant. Snapp is leading a team that includes MSU professor ...

...: <http://www.cimmyt.org/english/wps/news/2005/sept/images/stem2.jpg>  and <http://www.gov.mb.ca/agriculture/crops/diseases/images/fac15s01.jpg> Links Recent news stories on worldwi...

...airo, Egypt On 18 July ICARDA Director General Dr. Mahmoud Solh and Dr. Ayman Abou Hadid, President of Egypt’s Agriculture Research Center, agreed to sign a Memorandum of Understanding to launch a 10&...

...ave to reward the indigenous people fairly," Valladolid says. But Michel Pimbert, director of the Sustainable Agriculture, Biodiversity and Livelihoods programme at the International Institute for En...

Scientific strategies can save dryland agriculture 15 July 2009 by William D. Dar, Director General, ICRISAT Climate change will make Indian dryland agriculture harder, but a scientific strategy o

...anted by farmers. The regulatory hurdles and costs involved in making genetically modified plants available to agriculture and consumers are very high. The ETH scientists aim to make their high-iron r...

28. Dr Andy Jarvis, CIAT scientist
(people/Accomplishments and contributions)
...g relatives of domesticated crops, and has used geographic modeling to predict the impact of climate change on agriculture. Using this novel technology, Jarvis and his team also mapped the distributio...

29. Winners of the six grants on climate change
(funding/Fellowships and grants conveyed)
... germplasm from Southeast Asia and the Pacific Institute of Plant Breeding – Crop Science Cluster, College of Agriculture, University of the Philippines Los Baños The Philippines Improvement  of...

30. Winners of the two grants on durable resistance to rust
(funding/Fellowships and grants conveyed)
...view, and Mr Paul Brennan of Australia will develop the review for wheat. Mr Tukamuhabwa  holds a PhD in Agriculture (Genetics and Plant Breeding) from Makerere University, where he has been a L...

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