CGIAR News Releases
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Item Free Exchange of Plant Genetic Material Boosts Global Efforts to Reduce Hunger and Malnutrition(Internal Document, 2001-11-12) CGIARTBDItem Item Science Aimed at Helping Poor Farmers is Key to Solving Hunger…(Internal Document, 2001-10-30) CGIARTBDItem World Bank and CGIAR Congratulate World Food Prize Laureate(Internal Document, 2001-08-30) CGIARTBDItem CGIAR MTM Business Meeting - End of Meeting Summary of Main Decisions(Meeting Report, 2001-05-25) CGIARTBDItem Climate Change Poses Special Problems for Agriculture CGIAR(Internal Document, 2001-05-22) CGIARTBDItem South Africa - CGIAR Partnership Results in New Maize Varieties with 30 to 50 percent higher yields(Internal Document, 2001-05-21) CGIARTBDItem Climate Change, HIV-AIDs, Livestock Diseases Pose New Challenges to Agriculture(Internal Document, 2001-05-14) CGIARTBDItem Item Item Item Scientists & Farmers Are Revolutionizing Tropical Hillside Agriculture(Internal Document, 1999-10-19) CGIARTBDItem Scientists and Farmers are Revolutionizing Tropical Hillside Agriculture - Goals are to Raise Incomes, Prevent Ecological Disasters(Internal Document, 1999-10-01) CGIAR SecretariatCGIAR news release on the importance of tropical hillsides and forests, the consequences of their degradation, and revolutionary measures being designed by CIAT to preserve them.Item Calling for a New 'Green Revolution'- Book Urges Harnessing Scientific Advances to Fight Hunger and Poverty(Internal Document, 1999-10-01) CGIAR SecretariatCGIAR news release on new book 'Food in the 21st Century: From Science to Sustainable Agriculture' by Maurice Strong and Mahendra Shah.Item New Rice Technologies Promise up to 25 Percent Less Water Usage(Internal Document, 1999-05-01) CGIAR SecretariatCGIAR news release on new rice techniques to reduce the water requirements of rice production, including wet seeding, intermittent rice irrigation, land leveling, improved weed management, and management of cracked soils.Item The World Water and Climate Atlas: Powerful New Computer Tool Examines Earth in Detail(Internal Document, 1998-11-01) CGIAR SecretariatCGIAR news release on enhancements to the World Water and Climate Atlas developed by IWMI (previously IIMI) enabling users to identify areas suitable for rainfed agriculture, extract climate information to determine crop potential, and estimate water demand by country and by river basin.Item The "Bio-Technology Revolution"-New Opportunities and Risks for the Poor and the Environment: International Panel Calls on CGIAR to Provide Public Research for "All Humanity"(Internal Document, 1998-10-01) CGIAR SecretariatNews release on the findings of the third CGIAR System review emphasizing the opportunities and risks for the poor and the environment of the biotechnology revolution, and the importance of the CGIAR's role in ensuring that the rapid advances in modern molecular genetics, computing, and infomatics are responsive to the public good.Item Panel Sees Urgent Need to Harness "Biotechnology Revolution" to Help the Poor and Protect the Environment: Calls on CGIAR to Provide Public Research for all Humanity(Internal Document, 1998-09-01) CGIAR SecretariatCGIAR news release on the preliminary findings of a report by an international panel of experts headed by Maurice Strong conducting the third independent System Review of the work of the CGIAR. The report urged the Group to take action to assure the benefits of biotechnology to the poor and the environment at a tiime when private sector investment in biotechnology research in the United States alone amounted to some US$ 9 billion annually. The products and processes being developed by this privately funded research were being patented in what Ismail Serageldin called a 'proprietary science regime.'Item CGIAR Scientists Develop New Potato Clones to Counter Late Blight, World's Worst Agricultural Disease(Internal Document, 1998-05-01) CGIAR SecretariatCGIAR news release on a new set of experimental potatoes developed at CIP and expected to be resistant to all forms of late blight, which continues to reduce global potato production by 15 percent, costing US$2.5 billion in lost production and necessitating $750 million annually.Item CGIAR Urges Halt to Granting of Intellectual Property Rights for Designated Plant Germplasm(Internal Document, 1998-02-01) CGIAR SecretariatNews release on the CGIAR's call for a moratorium on the granting of intellectual property rights on designated germplasm held in CGIAR centers which were placed under the auspices of the FAO in 1994.