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Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research

GLOBAL STUDY REVEALS NEW WARNING SIGNALS:
Degraded Agricultural Lands Threaten World’s Food Production Capacity
05-21-2000
Nearly forty percent of the world’s agricultural land is seriously degraded, which could undermine the long-term productive capacity of those soils... more
Scientists & Farmers Are Revolutionizing Tropical Hillside Agriculture
Goals Are to Raise Incomes, Prevent Ecological Disasters
10-24-1999
The world’s tropical hillsides, on which 525 million people live and farm, are annually losing nearly 10,000 square miles of tropical forests to deforestation and 13 billion tons of topsoil to erosion... more
New Rice Techniques Promise up to 25 Percent Less Water Usage
05-17-1999
New, water-saving techniques are being developed that could save up to 25 percent of the water now used to grow rice... more
Four Million Killed in Post-Cold War Conflicts
02-16-1999
In the post-Cold War period, new patterns of wars have emerged that have killed an estimated 4 million people, 90 percent of them non-combatants... more
The World Water and Climate Atlas
Powerful New Computer Tool Examines Earth in Detail
11-23-1998
One-quarter of the world’s population will suffer severe water scarcity within the next 25 years... more
CGIAR Scientists Develop New Potato Clones
To Counter Late Blight, World’s Worst Agricultural Disease
05-24-1998
Scientists at the International Potato Center in Lima, Peru have harvested a new set of experimental potatoes expected to be resistant to all existing forms of late blight disease... more
Food Gap Widening in Developing Countries
One in Four Children Worldwide Will Be Malnourished in 2020
10-26-1997
By the year 2020, food production could fail to keep pace with increases in the demand for food by growing populations in many developing countries... more
World’s Dryland Farmers Need New Agricultural Technology
‘Green Revolution’ Never Reached Them
08-21-1997
For a wide swath of arid and semi-arid countries holding one-fourth of the world’s population, scientists of the Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research (CGIAR) are developing new breeds of crops and animals... more
THE WORLD WATER AND CLIMATE ATLAS FOR AGRICULTURE
A New Technology
03-16-1997
Scientists at the International Irrigation Management Institute (IIMI) and Utah State University have created a new global database called The World Water and Climate Atlas for Agriculture... more
Agricultural Scientists Design Better Future
New Efforts to Feed People, Fight Poverty and Protect Environment in the 21st Century
10-27-1996
Despite some gloom and doom predictions, the world has the resources needed to feed the 8 billion plus people... more
POOR FARMERS COULD DESTROY HALF OF REMAINING TROPICAL FOREST
08-04-1996
Nearly half of Earth's remaining 5 billion acres (2 billion hectares) of tropical forests could be lost to agriculture... more
WHEAT IS CENTURY'S 'MIRACLE CROP'
10-29-1995
A massive agricultural transformation will make wheat the number one grain in developing countries... more
STARVATION THREATENS RWANDA
"Seeds of Hope" Program to Restore its Crippled Agriculture
12-11-1994
Millions of Rwandans, their country wracked by civil war and ethnic genocide this year, face famine... more
New 'Super Rice' Will Help Feed
Nearly Half-Billion More People
10-23-1994
A new breed of "super rice" that can produce 25 percent more grain on the same amount of land... more
Hardy Corn Varieties Developed for Drought and Acidic Soils
Could Raise Yields 40 Percent and Help Feed Developing World
07-23-1994
Researchers have created hardy new breeds of tropical corn that can increase harvests by 40 percent... more