The 6th International Hybrid Rice Symposium will be held at Taj Krishna Hotel, Hyderabad, India from 9-11 September 2012. Organized by the International Rice Research Institute and the Directorate of Rice Research, Indian Council of Agricultural Research, the event will gather hybrid rice…
The First Global Conference on Women in Agriculture (GCWA), organized in New Delhi on March 13-15 by the Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR) and the Asia-Pacific Association of Agricultural Research Institutions (APAARI), was supported through the Gender in Agriculture Partnership (…
The 11th meeting of the Conference of the Parties (COP 11) to the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) is organized by the CBD Secretariat. The High Level Segment will be held from 17-19 October 2012.
The provisional agenda includes consideration of: the status of the Nagoya Protocol on…
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Agricultural experts from the G20 countries will meet next week to find ways to match the latest research and technology to the growing demand for more food. It’s estimated the world’s population will grow to nine billion by 2050.…
Fast growing economies are increasingly emerging also as dominant forces in global economic, social and environmental affairs. These economies represent the world¿s largest potential markets and trading partners, the source of much of both the world¿s natural and human resources and of major…
Country briefs presented by Brazil, China, Egypt, India, France, Vietnam at the International Workshop on Fast Growing Economies' Role in Global Agricultural Research for Development, February 2010
Fast growing economies are increasingly emerging also as dominant forces in global economic, social and environmental affairs. These economies represent the world¿s largest potential markets and trading partners, the source of much of both the world¿s natural and human resources and of major…