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New Rice for Africa
African rice species proliferate like weeds, but are low yielding. Asian rice species, brought to Africa 450 years ago, are high yielding, but cannot compete with weeds. Scientists at West Africa ... kept in gene banks, which have faced extinction as farmers abandoned them for higher-yielding Asian varieties. A number of international agricultural research institutions were partners with WARDA in the ...
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Genetically engineered crops: who benefits?
Scientists in West Africa have also used this technique to cross the high yielding Asian rices with the traditional African rices. The result is a new plant type that looks ... of growth (in particular, it is able to shade out weeds) but becomes more like Asian rice as it reaches maturity, resulting in higher yields with few inputs. But, the most ...
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Equity Watch - Global Environmental Government Unit - Centre for Science and
Environment (CSE)
With the subsidiary bodies negotiations not yielding much to rejoice, it is now up to the ministerial conference at The Hague to ... the Kyoto Protocol. Gillian Handyside 2000, UN warns world leaders against global warming, in The Asian Age, New Delhi, 17 September, p-5. International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD) 2000, Summary ...
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Transcript: How Water Scarcity Will Shape the New Century
But it takes water — a lot of water — to produce two high yielding crops. What has happened is that the water table under the ... and the Yangtze or Yellow River, they all come out of that central Asian snow/ice mass. And it is shrinking. This could alter the ...
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U.S. Global Change Research Information Office
Europe? Or that dense, flammable plants such as Australian melaleuca, the so-called Australian pine, Asian cogongrass, and Brazilian pepper, introduced for roadside planting in Florida, have become costly hazards because ... sterile. This might have ended the story, had not one of them undergone a mutation, yielding a new species that turned out to be a fertile, invasive weed. The Geography of ...
gcrio.org
Email from Jorge Soberon to Richard Smith & John Pickering, 19 July, 2005
Berlin, Amsterdam,......... ). Several developing world countries painfully have developed projects and initiatives that are now yielding fruits. Pick "diss us" even if he does not intends to. And when I make ... Discover-Life having serious talks with GBIF, IABIN, perhaps the CBD (GTI), the African and Asian initiatives and so on. Perhaps also CONABIO, InBio, von Humboldt, CRIA and Sabonet. Find out ...
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Path finders
Project have, to date, built 10 artificial glaciers. Mr Norphel was recently nominated for the Asian Innovation Award instituted by the Far Eastern Economic Review and Du Pont. After obtaining ... in India. Wheat production increased dramatically thereafter and doubled within 10 years. He developed high-yielding strains of wheat and rice and accomplished crosses in potato and jute species. He ...
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Causes of climate change
Indian land mass is moving towards the Asian land mass, slowly but steadily. Volcanoes When a volcano erupts ... , is actually shrinking as a result of ecological degradation!), high-yielding varieties of crop are being grown to increase the ... output from a given area of land. However, such high-yielding varieties of crops require large quantities of fertilizers; and more ...
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Partnership | Methane to Markets Partnership | US EPA
This collaboration is yielding important benefits, including enhanced economic growth and energy security, improved air quality and industrial ... -producing countries to promote CMM development and use. EPA is currently working with the Asian Development Bank on the Jincheng project in Shanxi, China—the world’s largest CMM- ...
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NORMAN BORLAUG INTERNATIONAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY FELLOWS PROGRAM
Dr. Borlaug won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1970 for his success in developing high-yielding wheat varieties and reversing severe food shortages that haunted India and Pakistan in the 1960 ... open to participants worldwide, the program focuses on African, South Central American, Central European, and Asian nations. The program is administered by USDA's Foreign Agricultural Service in cooperation with ...
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