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Africa Rice Center
The Africa Rice Center (AfricaRice), formerly known as the West Africa Rice Development Association (WARDA), is a pan-African intergovernmental association and a CGIAR Research organization, currently headquartered in Abidjan, Cote d'Ivoire.
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Agriculture and Rural Development Day
Between 2009 and 2012, Agriculture and Rural Development Day (ARDD) was an annual event co-organized by the Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research (CGIAR), Earth System Science Partnership (ESSP), Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), Global Forum on Agricultural Research (GFAR), International Federation of Agricultural Producers (IFAP), and International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI).
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AGRIS
AGRIS (International System for Agricultural Science and Technology) is a global public domain database with more than 8 million structured bibliographical records on agricultural science and technology.
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Agroforestry
Agroforestry is a land use management system in which trees or shrubs are grown around or among crops or pastureland.
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Agropolis Fondation
Agropolis Fondation, extended name "Montpellier Agricultural Sciences and Sustainable Development” was created in France on Feb.
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Anthony Beattie
George Anthony Beattie (17 April 1944 – 31 March 2014) was a British civil servant, born in London.
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Association of International Research and Development Centers for Agriculture
The Association of International Research and Development Centers for Agriculture (AIRCA) is an international, non-profit alliance focused on increasing food security by supporting smallholder agriculture and rural enterprise within healthy, sustainable and climate-smart landscapes.
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Atmaram Bhairav Joshi
Atmaram Bhairav Joshi, popularly known as A. B. Joshi, was an Indian agricultural scientist and academic, known for his contributions to the field of wheat and other crop breeding.
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Australian Centre for Plant Functional Genomics
The Australian Centre for Plant Functional Genomics (ACPFG) is a research organisation focusing on improving the resistance of wheat and barley to hostile environmental conditions, using functional genomics technologies.
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Banana
A banana is an edible fruit – botanically a berry – produced by several kinds of large herbaceous flowering plants in the genus Musa.
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Basin Focal Projects
The Basin Focal Projects (BFPs) are a set of CGIAR Challenge Program on Water and Food projects aimed at identifying and catalyzing the implementation of strategic interventions to enhance human and ecological well-being through increases in river basin and local level water productivity.
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Bela "Bert" Grof
Bela ("Bert") Grof (born in Győr, Hungary on 9 June 1921; died in Bundaberg, Queensland, Australia on 17 November 2011), was a Hungarian-born Australian agricultural researcher with contributions to grassland and forage research in the tropics.
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Biofortification
Biofortification is the idea of breeding crops to increase their nutritional value.
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Bioversity International
Bioversity International is a global research-for-development organization with a vision – that agricultural biodiversity nourishes people and sustains the planet.
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Board for International Food and Agricultural Development (BIFAD)
The Board for International Food and Agricultural Development (BIFAD) advises the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) on issues concerning agriculture, Higher Education in developing countries, and food insecurity.
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Cassava production in Nigeria
Cassava (Manihot esculenta) production is vital to the economy of Nigeria as the country is the world's largest producer of the commodity.
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Center for International Forestry Research
The Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR) is a non-profit scientific research organization that conducts research on the use and management of forests with a focus on tropical forests in developing countries.
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CGIAR
CGIAR (formerly the Consultative Group for International Agricultural Research) is a global partnership that unites organizations engaged in research for a food-secured future.
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CGNET Services International
CGNET Services International, based in Mountain View, California, is an example of an early pioneer in the field of international data communications.
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Climate change and agriculture
Climate change and agriculture are interrelated processes, both of which take place on a global scale.
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COM+ Alliance
The COM+ Alliance of Communicators for Sustainable Development (abbreviated COM+ Alliance or COM+) is a partnership of international organizations and communications professionals from diverse sectors committed to using communications to advance a vision of sustainable development that integrates its three pillars: economic, social and environmental.
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Contemporary history
Contemporary history, in English-language historiography, is a subset of modern history which describes the historical period from approximately 1945 to the present.
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Crawford Fund
The Crawford Fund was established as an initiative of the Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering (ATSE) in 1987.
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Crop diversity
Crop diversity is the variance in genetic and phenotypic characteristics of plants used in agriculture.
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Crop Trust
The Crop Trust, officially known as the Global Crop Diversity Trust, is an international nonprofit organization which works to preserve crop diversity in order to protect global food security.
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Crops for the Future (CFF)
Crops for the Future, known by its acronym CFF, is an independent international organisation with a mandate to promote and facilitate the greater use of neglected and underutilised crops for enhanced diversification of agricultural systems and human diets, particularly for the benefit of poor people in developing countries.
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Deficit irrigation
Deficit irrigation (DI) is a watering strategy that can be applied by different types of irrigation application methods.
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Derrick Thomas (agricultural scientist)
Derrick Thomas (born in 1944; died on 13 May 2013) was a British agricultural researcher with special contributions to grassland and forage research in the tropics.
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Digital elevation model
A digital elevation model (DEM) is a 3D CG representation of a terrain's surface – commonly of a planet (e.g. Earth), moon, or asteroid – created from a terrain's elevation data.
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E-agriculture
E-agriculture (sometimes written eagriculture or referred to as ICT in agriculture) is a relatively recent term in the field of agriculture and rural development practices.
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Economics of Land Degradation Initiative
The Economics of Land Degradation (ELD) Initiative is a global initiative which aims to increase awareness of the economic consequences of land degradation and promote sustainable land management.
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Eleusine coracana
Eleusine coracana, or finger millet, is an annual herbaceous plant widely grown as a cereal crop in the arid and semiarid areas in Africa and Asia.
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Fatima Denton
Fatima Denton is the Co-ordinator for the African Climate Policy Centre (ACPC) of the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA), based in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.
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FHCRAA
The Future Harvest Consortium to Rebuild Agriculture in Afghanistan (FHCRAA) is a consortium of aid organizations working to restructure agriculture in the central Asian nation.
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Florence Wambugu
Florence Muringi Wambugu (born 23 August 1953) is a Kenyan plant pathologist and virologist.
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Food security
Food security is a condition related to the availability of food supply, group of people such as (ethnicities, racial, cultural and religious groups) as well as individuals' access to it.
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Future Earth
Future Earth is a 10-year international research programme which aims to build knowledge about the environmental and human aspects of Global change, and to find solutions for sustainable development.
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G. B. Pant University of Agriculture and Technology
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Genesys (website)
Genesys is an online, global portal about plant genetic resources for food and agriculture.
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Genetically modified food controversies
Genetically modified food controversies are disputes over the use of foods and other goods derived from genetically modified crops instead of conventional crops, and other uses of genetic engineering in food production.
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GeoNetwork opensource
The GeoNetwork opensource (GNOS) project is a free and open source (FOSS) cataloging application for spatially referenced resources.
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Global Forum on Agricultural Research and Innovation
The Global Forum on Agricultural Research and Innovation (GFAR) is an inclusive global mechanism enabling all those concerned with the future of agriculture and its role in development around the world to come together and address key global needs.
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Global Open Data for Agriculture and Nutrition
Global Open Data for Agriculture and Nutrition (GODAN) is an initiative that seeks to "support global efforts to make agricultural and nutritionally relevant data available, accessible, and usable for unrestricted use worldwide.
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Global Rice Science Partnership
The Global Rice Science Partnership (GRiSP), also known as the CGIAR Research Program on Rice, is an initiative of the CGIAR to bring together research and development partners from around the world to undertake and deliver rice research.
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Green Revolution
The Green Revolution, or Third Agricultural Revolution, refers to a set of research and the development of technology transfer initiatives occurring between the 1930s and the late 1960s (with prequels in the work of the agrarian geneticist Nazareno Strampelli in the 1920s and 1930s), that increased agricultural production worldwide, particularly in the developing world, beginning most markedly in the late 1960s.
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Guido Gryseels
Dr Guido Gryseels is a Belgian academic and agricultural economist who has been Director-General of the Royal Museum for Central Africa in Tervuren, Belgium since 2001.
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Hans Rudolf Herren
Hans Rudolf Herren (born November 30, 1947 in Mühleberg, Switzerland) is a Swiss entomologist, farmer and development specialist.
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Hari Krishan Jain
Hari Krishan Jain (born 1930) is an Indian cytogeneticist and plant breeder, known for his contributions to the field of genetic recombination and the control of interchromosome level.
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Hikkaduwa National Park
Hikkaduwa National Park is one of the three marine national parks in Sri Lanka.
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Indian Institute of Sugarcane Research
The Indian Institute of Sugarcane Research (acronym IISR) is an autonomous institute of higher learning, under the umbrella of Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR) by the Ministry of Agriculture, Government of India for advanced research in sugar cane agriculture.
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Inger Andersen (environmentalist)
Inger Andersen (born 23 May 1958) is a Danish economist and environmentalist.
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Institutional Learning and Change Initiative
Institutional Learning and Change (ILAC) was an Initiative of the CGIAR created in 2003 and discontinued in 2015.
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International agricultural research
The only mandated international agricultural research organization is the CGIAR The CGIAR Fund supports 15 international agricultural research centers such as the International Water Management Institute (IWMI), International Rice Research Institute (IRRI), the International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA), the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI), the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) and the Center for International Forestry Research that form the CGIAR Consortium of International Agricultural Research Centers and are located in various countries worldwide (as of 2011), The centers carry out research on various agricultural commodities, livestock, fish, water, forestry, policy and management.
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International Association of Agricultural Information Specialists
The International Association of Agricultural Information Specialists is the international professional association of people and institutions who are professionally involved in creating, capturing, accessing, or disseminating information and knowledge concerning agriculture and rural development.
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International Center for Agricultural Research in the Dry Areas
The International Center for Agriculture Research in the Dry Areas (ICARDA), a member of the CGIAR, supported by the CGIAR Fund, is a non-profit agricultural research institute that aims to improve the livelihoods of the resource-poor across the world’s dry areas.
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International Center for Tropical Agriculture
The International Center for Tropical Agriculture (known as CIAT from its Spanish-language name Centro Internacional de Agricultura Tropical) is a not-for-profit research and development organization dedicated to reducing poverty and hunger while protecting natural resources in developing countries.
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International Centre for Underutilised Crops
The International Centre for Underutilised Crops (ICUC, later renamed: Crops for the Future, CFF) has been an independent nonprofit scientific research institute that investigated, coordinated and supported research programmes towards increasing the productivity and use of what are termed underutilised crops—crops that have a potential to be cultivated and made useful on a significantly larger scale than they have been.
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International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics
The International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT) is an International organization which conducts agricultural research for rural development, headquartered in Patancheru (Hyderabad, Telangana, India) with several regional centers (Bamako (Mali), Nairobi (Kenya)) and research stations (Niamey (Niger), Kano (Nigeria), Lilongwe (Malawi), Addis Ababa (Ethiopia), Bulawayo (Zimbabwe)).
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International Fertilizer Industry Association
The International Fertilizer Industry Association (IFA) is a nonprofit organization that represents the global fertilizer industry, on issues related to the promotion of plant nutrients, improvement of the operating environment of the member companies and the collection and compilation of industry information.
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International Food Policy Research Institute
The International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) is an international agricultural research center founded in the early 1970s to improve the understanding of national agricultural and food policies to promote the adoption of innovations in agricultural technology.
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International Institute of Tropical Agriculture
The International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA) works with partners to enhance crop quality and productivity, reduce producer and consumer risks, and generate wealth from agriculture, with the ultimate goals of reducing hunger, malnutrition, and poverty.
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International Livestock Research Institute
The International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) is an international agricultural research institute based in Nairobi, Kenya, and founded in 1994 by the merging of the International Livestock Centre for Africa and the International Laboratory for Research on Animal Diseases.
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International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center
The International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (known by its Spanish acronym CIMMYT for Centro Internacional de Mejoramiento de Maíz y Trigo) is a non-profit research and training institution dedicated to both the development of improved varieties of wheat and maize with the aim of contributing to food security, and the introduction of improved agricultural practices to smallholder farmers to help boost production, prevent crop disease and improve their livelihoods.
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International Organization for Biological Control
The International Organization for Biological and Integrated Control, usually referred to as IOBC, is a professional organization affiliated with the International Union of Biological Sciences (IUBS) and aims to be an effective advocate for biological control, integrated pest management (IPM) and integrated production (IP).
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International Potato Center
The International Potato Center (known as CIP from its Spanish-language name Centro Internacional de la Papa) is a research facility based in Lima, Peru, that seeks to reduce poverty and achieve food security on a sustained basis in developing countries through scientific research and related activities on potato, sweet potato, other root and tuber crops, and on the improved management of natural resources in the Andes and other mountain areas.
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International Rice Research Institute
The International Rice Research Institute (IRRI) is an international agricultural research and training organization with headquarters in Los Baños, Laguna in the Philippines and offices in seventeen countries with ~1,300 staff.
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International Water Management Institute
The International Water Management Institute (IWMI) is a non-profit research organisation with headquarters in Colombo, Sri Lanka, and offices across Africa and Asia.
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Ismail Serageldin
Ismail Serageldin (born 1944 in Giza, Egypt), Founding Director of the Bibliotheca Alexandrina (BA), the new Library of Alexandria, inaugurated in 2002, is currently, Emeritus Librarian, and member of the Board of Trustees of the Library of Alexandria.
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Joab Thomas
Joab Langston Thomas (February 14, 1933 – March 3, 2014) was an American university administrator and scientist, who served as president of Pennsylvania State University, North Carolina State University and The University of Alabama.
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Jock R. Anderson
Jock Robert Anderson (born 23 January 1941) is an Australian agricultural economist, specialising in agricultural development economics, risk and decision theory, and international rural development policy.
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Joseph H. Hulse
Joseph H. Hulse (1923–2013) was a Canadian biochemist, food technologist, writer, and the president of the International Union of Food Science and Technology.
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Julian Gonsalves
Julian Gonsalves is an Indian environmentalist.
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King Baudouin International Development Prize
The King Baudouin Foundation is an independent and pluralistic foundation based in Brussels whose aim is to serve society.
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Leslie Denis Swindale
Leslie Denis Swindale (born 16 March 1928) is a New Zealand-born soil scientist, agriculturist, writer and a former chairman of the Department Agronomy and Soil Science of the University of Hawaii.
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Lindsay Falvey
John Lindsay Falvey FTSE (born 23 May 1950), known as Lindsay Falvey, is an Australian -born international R&D specialist and an author who writes on topics concerning agricultural science and philosophy, religion, international development and spiritual development.
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Louise Fresco
Louise Ottilie Fresco (born 11 February 1952 in Meppel) is a Dutch scientist, director and writer.
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M. S. Swaminathan
Mankombu Sambasivan Swaminathan.(born 7 August 1925) is an Indian geneticist and international administrator, renowned for his leading role in India's Green Revolution, a program under which high-yield varieties of wheat and rice seedlings were planted in the fields of poor farmers.
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Malnutrition
Malnutrition is a condition that results from eating a diet in which one or more nutrients are either not enough or are too much such that the diet causes health problems.
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Market information systems
Market information systems (otherwise known as market intelligence systems, market information services, or MIS, and not to be confused with management information systems) are information systems used in gathering, analyzing and disseminating information about prices and other information relevant to farmers, animal rearers, traders, processors and others involved in handling agricultural products.
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Narinder Singh Randhawa
Narinder Singh Randhawa (1927–1996) was an Indian agricultural scientist, writer and the director general of the Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR).
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Neglected and underutilized crop
Neglected and underused crops are also known as orphan, abandoned, lost, underutilized, local, minor, traditional, alternative, niche, or underdeveloped crops and more lately often referred to as forgotten or smart food.
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Net-map toolbox
The net-map toolbox is a social network analysis tool that uses interviews and mapping to help people understand, visualize, discuss, and improve situations in which many different actors influence outcomes.
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Norman Borlaug
Norman Ernest Borlaug (March 25, 1914September 12, 2009) was an American agronomist and humanitarian who led initiatives worldwide that contributed to the extensive increases in agricultural production termed the Green Revolution.
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Norman Uphoff
Norman Uphoff (born 1940) is an American social scientist now involved with agroecology serving as a Professor of Government and International Agriculture at Cornell University.
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Outline of the United Nations
The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to the United Nations: United Nations – international organization whose stated aims are facilitating cooperation in international law, international security, economic development, social progress, human rights, and achievement of world peace.
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Pamela K. Anderson
Pamela K. Anderson was the Director General of the International Potato Center, or CIP (Centro Internacional de la Papa) 2004–2013.
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Pamela Ronald
Pamela C. Ronald (born 1961) is an American plant pathologist and geneticist.
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Pasture
Pasture (from the Latin pastus, past participle of pascere, "to feed") is land used for grazing.
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Patrick Webb
Patrick Webb (born 10 March 1959) is the Alexander McFarlane Professor of Nutrition at the Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy at Tufts University.
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Pearl millet
Pearl millet (Pennisetum glaucum) is the most widely grown type of millet.
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Plant genetic resources
Plant genetic resources are plant genetic materials of actual or potential value.
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ProMusa
ProMusa is a platform of scientists and other stakeholders to facilitate the exchange of information and knowledge on banana.
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Rajeev Kumar Varshney
Rajeev Kumar Varshney is a geneticist or genomicist with more than 20 years of research experience in the area of international agriculture.
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Rajendra Singh Paroda
Dr.
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Ralph Gretzmacher
Ralph Gretzmacher is an Austrian scientist, professor of botany, zoology and an expert on tropical and subtropic agronomy.
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Regional Strategic Analysis and Knowledge Support System
The Regional Strategic Analysis and Knowledge Support System (ReSAKSS) was established in 2006 and compiles and analyzes information to help design and evaluate rural development strategies and monitor the progress of the Comprehensive Africa Agriculture Development Programme (CAADP).
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Rhamphicarpa fistulosa
Rhamphicarpa fistulosa (common name: rice vampireweed) is a flowering plant species in the Orobanchaceae family (formerly in the Scrophulariaceae family) - and the genus Rhamphicarpa.
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Rockefeller Foundation
The Rockefeller Foundation is a private foundation based at 420 Fifth Avenue, New York City.
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Sam Dryden
Sam Dryden (1949 or 1950 – August 10, 2017) was a thought leader and advocate for food and nutrition security, with a particular focus on small-holder farmer led agricultural development in Africa and Asia.
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Shuttle Radar Topography Mission
The Shuttle Radar Topography Mission (SRTM) is an international research effort that obtained digital elevation models on a near-global scale from 56° S to 60° N, to generate the most complete high-resolution digital topographic database of Earth prior to the release of the ASTER GDEM in 2009.
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SIDALC
The Agricultural Information and Documentation Service of the Americas (SIDALC) is an international agricultural, livestock, forestry and environmental information service in which institutions in 23 countries of the Americas share information and services on line.
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SITIA
SITIA is an international non-profit ICT4D organization founded January 17, 1997 in Menlo Park, California.
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Stanford Blade
Dr.
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Svalbard Global Seed Vault
The Svalbard Global Seed Vault (Svalbard globale frøhvelv) is a secure seed bank on the Norwegian island of Spitsbergen near Longyearbyen in the remote Arctic Svalbard archipelago, about from the North Pole.
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Swapan Kumar Datta
Swapan Kumar Datta (born 28 January 1953) is a well known scientist (Professor) of rice biotechnology.
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Taihu pig
The Taihu pig is a domestic breed of pig from the narrow region of mild sub-tropical climate around the Lake Tai region in the lower Yangtze River Valley of China.
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Tom Arnold (economist)
Tom Arnold is an Irish agricultural economist and public policy advisor who has worked in the Irish civil service and served on various non-governmental organisations and public forums, mainly in the area of food security.
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Tropical agriculture
Worldwide more human beings gain their livelihood from agriculture than any other endeavor; the majority are self-employed subsistence farmers living in the tropics.
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United Nations Forum on Forests
The United Nations Forum on Forests (UNFF) is a high-level intergovernmental policy forum.
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Virender Lal Chopra
Virender Lal Chopra (born 1936) is an Indian biotechnologist, geneticist, agriculturalist and a former director-general of the Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR), known to have contributed to the development of wheat production in India.
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Water security
Water security has been defined as "the reliable availability of an acceptable quantity and quality of water for health, livelihoods and production, coupled with an acceptable level of water-related risks".
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Water, Land and Ecosystems
Water, Land and Ecosystems is one of several new research programmes approved by the CGIAR during 2011 after an extensive period of consultation that began in 2009.
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Web 2.0 for development
Participatory Web 2.0 for development in short Web2forDev is a way of employing web services, in order to improve information sharing and collaborative production of content in the context of development work.
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WFC
WFC may refer to.
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William Dar
William Dollente Dar (born 1953) an international administrator, is former Director General of ICRISAT.
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World Agroforestry Centre
The World Agroforestry Centre (a brand name used by the International Centre for Research in Agroforestry, ICRAF), is an international institute headquartered in Nairobi, Kenya, and founded in 1978 as "International Council for Research in Agroforestry".
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World Food Prize
The World Food Prize is an international award recognizing the achievements of individuals who have advanced human development by improving the quality, quantity, or availability of food in the world.
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WorldFish
WorldFish is an international, nonprofit research organization with headquarters in Penang, Malaysia, and offices in Asia, Africa, and the Pacific.
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YPARD
YPARD (Young Professionals for Agricultural Development) is an international movement made by young professionals for young professionals.
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2007–08 world food price crisis
World food prices increased dramatically in 2007 and the first and second quarter of 2008, creating a global crisis and causing political and economic instability and social unrest in both poor and developed nations.
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2011 United Nations Climate Change Conference
The 2011 United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP17) was held in Durban, South Africa, from 28 November to 11 December 2011 to establish a new treaty to limit carbon emissions.
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References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CGIAR
