Agricultura tropical: Despensa del mundo

“El trópico”, esa franja ubicada entre las latitudes 23.5° N y 23.5°S, ya ofrece al mundo 33% de la tierra arable, 25% de los cereales, las frutas y vegetales y el 20% de la carne.  Su importancia para alimentar al mundo es indudable y más aún en esa zona que reune al 40% de la población. &#8230; <a href="http://gcardblog.wordpress.com/2012/10/29/agricultura-tropical-despensa… reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=gcardblog.wordpress.com&#038;blog…; width="1" height="1" />

GCARD2. Breakout session P1.1 National Food Security – Speaker Brief – The Wheat Initiative – an International Research Initiative for Wheat Improvement

The Wheat Initiative1 aims to encourage and support the development of a vibrant global wheat public-private research community sharing resources, capabilities, data and ideas to improve wheat productivity, quality and sustainable production around the world.

GCARD2. Breakout Session P3.2 Turning Innovations into Market Opportunities – Speaker Brief

Many are now urging greater attention to farm-to-fork value chains and how smallholder benefits generated bythose chains can be increased. This change in perspective has far-reaching consequences both for R4D priorities and for partnerships. In this Briefing Paper we utilize ICRISAT&rsquo;s experiences toexamine some of those consequences and their implications for partnership strategies.

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