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[Title] => IRRI team bags top research award
[Summary] => LOS BAÑOS, Laguna — For the third consecutive year, researchers here bagged the world’s most prestigious award for a scientific support team in publicly funded agricultural research.
This year’s winners were responsible for maintaining and making accessible to farmers, plant breeders and other scientists the world’s most comprehensive collection of rice genetic resources — about 110,000 samples of traditional and modern varieties of cultivated rice, as well as wild species.
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[Title] => Filipinos lead international science awardees
[Summary] => A Filipino-led international research institute and several Filipino researchers were among recipients of a global awards for outstanding scientific achievements given yesterday at the on-going annual general meeting of the Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research (CGIAR).
CGIAR chairman Ian Johnson presented the awards – considered the world’s most prestigious honor for agricultural scientists given annually by the global international network for excellence in science.
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[Title] => International research administrator bats for more R&D funds
[Summary] => LOS BAÑOS, Laguna – An international agricultural research administrator has batted for the allocation of more funds for research to enable humankind to "feed the poor and help the earth".
Director General Per Pinstrup Andersen of the Washington, DC, USA-based International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) lamented that public support for agricultural research has declined over the past few years.
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[Title] => ICRISAT developing GM peanut, others
[Summary] => It is but a matter of time before genetically modified groundnut (peanut) will become part of the agricultural landscape of suitable semi-arid tropic areas in Asia and Africa.
Now developing transgenic peanut is the International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT) based in Patancheru, India.
A field test on the emerging disease-resistant and high-yielding crop has been tried in India, said ICRISAT Director General William D. Dar, former Philippine Agriculture Acting Secretary.
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[Title] => World’s top agri scientists meet in RP
[Summary] => LOS BAÑOS, Laguna – Some 500 research administrators and scientists from various parts of the world began their five-day meeting in the Philippines here yesterday, confident that research can considerably help enable countries to feed their burgeoning population.
The optimism was echoed by Dr. Ian Johnson, chairman of the Consultative Group of International Agricultural Research (CGIAR), who said: "Yes we can."
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[Title] => Water scarcity affects food security
[Summary] => Water will be a key element in the pursuit of food security of the world in the next century. Researches show an alarming trend that sources of water for human consumption have increasingly become less accessible to poorer segments of the world population in recent years.
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[AuthorName] => Benny G. Enriquez
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[Title] => Biodiversity helps farms
[Summary] => The importance of biodiversity in helping farms improve not only their livelihoods but also their local environments and, in some cases, even their own health has been confirmed by new rice research.
Details of the findings will be disclosed during the annual general meeting of the Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research (OGIAR), to be held in Manila on Oct. 28 to Nov. 1.
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[Title] => Challenges in maize, wheat research
[Summary] => Maize and wheat are two of the world’s three most important staple foods and are essential to food security and socio-economic development, according to Dr. Masa Iwanaga, recently appointed director-general of the International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT) based in Mexico.
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[Title] => International alliance of agri R&D investors to meet in RP
[Summary] => The Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research (CGIAR) is a strategic alliance of investors. 16 international research institutes known as Future Harvest Centers. 58 members including 22 developing and 21 industrialized countries and many hundreds of partner organizations which mobilizes science to benefit poor people.
The Future Harvest Centers of the CGIAR generate knowledge which is helping increase food production, improve health and preserve biodiversity and natural resources worldwide.
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FUTURE HARVEST CENTERS
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This year’s winners were responsible for maintaining and making accessible to farmers, plant breeders and other scientists the world’s most comprehensive collection of rice genetic resources — about 110,000 samples of traditional and modern varieties of cultivated rice, as well as wild species.
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CGIAR chairman Ian Johnson presented the awards – considered the world’s most prestigious honor for agricultural scientists given annually by the global international network for excellence in science.
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[Summary] => LOS BAÑOS, Laguna – An international agricultural research administrator has batted for the allocation of more funds for research to enable humankind to "feed the poor and help the earth".
Director General Per Pinstrup Andersen of the Washington, DC, USA-based International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) lamented that public support for agricultural research has declined over the past few years.
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Now developing transgenic peanut is the International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT) based in Patancheru, India.
A field test on the emerging disease-resistant and high-yielding crop has been tried in India, said ICRISAT Director General William D. Dar, former Philippine Agriculture Acting Secretary.
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[Summary] => LOS BAÑOS, Laguna – Some 500 research administrators and scientists from various parts of the world began their five-day meeting in the Philippines here yesterday, confident that research can considerably help enable countries to feed their burgeoning population.
The optimism was echoed by Dr. Ian Johnson, chairman of the Consultative Group of International Agricultural Research (CGIAR), who said: "Yes we can."
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[Summary] => Water will be a key element in the pursuit of food security of the world in the next century. Researches show an alarming trend that sources of water for human consumption have increasingly become less accessible to poorer segments of the world population in recent years.
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[Title] => Biodiversity helps farms
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Details of the findings will be disclosed during the annual general meeting of the Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research (OGIAR), to be held in Manila on Oct. 28 to Nov. 1.
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In Asia alone, demand for maize is growing faster than the demand for any other cereals, including rice, and demand for wheat is rising rapidly as well, Dr. Iwanaga said.
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The Future Harvest Centers of the CGIAR generate knowledge which is helping increase food production, improve health and preserve biodiversity and natural resources worldwide.
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