The world population continues to grow at about 1.5 % a year. The projected 7 billion for last year was reached and the UN statistics are pointing to 8 billion for 2020. Additionally, emerging world economies are undergoing significant changes in their diet. Therefore, in the forthcoming decades…
CIHEAM Conference 15 to 17 June, Agricultural Higher Education in the 21st C: global challenge in knowledge transfer to meet world demands for food security and sustainability, to be held at CIHEAM Zaragoza, Spain. This conference is sponsored by the OECD Cooperative Research Programme. See the…
The Secretariat of the International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture has recently launched CAPFITOGEN, an initiative aimed at strengthening technical capacity of national programs and developing information and analysis tools for plant genetic resources.
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