‘Super wheat’ resists devastating rust

Published in SciDev Net by Naomi Antony  17 June 2011 | EN http://www.scidev.net/en/news/-super-wheat-resists-devastating-rust.html Stem rust can destroy wheat crops Flickr/CIMMYT ‘Super varieties’ of wheat resistant to the deadly stem rust fungus Ug99 could replace wheat in affected areas in as little as two years — if farmers can be persuaded to adopt them, according to [...]

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U.S. Announces Support for the Africa-led Partnership for Aflatoxin Control in Africa

        FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE June 10, 2011 Public Information: 202-712-4810 www.usaid.gov LUSAKA, Zambia – The United States announced today that it is committing $12 million for aflatoxin control in Africa. The announcement was made during the tenth annual Africa Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA) Forum in Lusaka, Zambia. The funds will support [...]

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Feed the Future Initiative

Fact Sheet The Norman Borlaug Commemorative Research Initiative: Leveraging U.S. Research to Reduce Hunger and Poverty Investing in agricultural research today contributes to the growth and resilience of the food supply tomorrow. When combined with other agricultural investments, improved technologies and practices can meet the need to feed an ever growing global population with less [...]

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Pestnet (http://www.pestnet.org): Free on-line Crop Protection and Quarantine Advisory Service by Grahame Jackson, Australia    Pestnet (http://www.pestnet.org) is a free on-line crop protection and quarantine advisory service with more than 1000 members. Run entirely by volunteers, it was first established in 1999 for the Pacific. In 2001 it expanded to south Asia, and in 2003 [...]

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