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Carolina Roa, Independent Consultant at CropIP “We need a material transfer agreement” © CIAT, licensed under Creative Commons CC BY-SA. As a plant breeder in the area of food and agriculture you look for well-characterized ­– or at least well-referenced –…

Africa will be able to feed itself in the next 15 years. That’s one of the big “bets on the future” that Bill and Melinda Gates have made in their foundation’s latest annual letter. Helped by other breakthroughs in health,…

In 1944, the year Bir Bahadur (B.B.) Singh was born in the state of Uttar Pradesh in India, Indian agriculture was in shambles. During nearly 200 years of British rule, the country’s agricultural enterprise had been turned over to commodities…