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July-August 2008
The Forgotten World Water Crisis
At the World Food Summit, held in early June in Rome by the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), the debate centered on the role of high oil prices, biofuels, changing consumption patterns and erratic weather.
While there was minimal discussion of the alarming decline over the last few decades in the availability of water, participants acknowledged the importance of breeding high yield crop varieties that require less water but did not address the critical question of where the extra water for more productive and efficient food, fiber and energy crops will come from. Read more...
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Understanding and Containing Global Food Price Inflation. Soaring food prices have put the CGIAR on high alert, and the international research Centers it supports are responding vigorously on several fronts. Read more.
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 Global Climate Change: Can Agriculture Cope?
No one understands better than farmers how the weather, especially when it takes a turn for the worse, can affect people and their land. That’s why farmers around the world have always talked and worried about the weather obsessively. But now, emerging weather patterns have a lot of other people worried, too.
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| The 15 Centers supported by the CGIAR have formed an Alliance to strengthen their collective action and increase the impact of their research |
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| harnessing the best of international science
for addressing the goals of the international agricultural
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