January 18, 2004
Agricultural advances in the past 3 decades have made remarkable progress in providing affordable cereals to most...
food
A simmering controversy boiled over a couple years ago when newspaper articles accused American plant breeders of...
The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) believes that meeting three fundamental needs of developing nations...
Almost everyone acknowledges that the Green Revolution has substantially increased the yield and supply of cereals in...
The most recent World Food Summit, in 1996, set the target of halving by 2015 the number...
A defining moment in the history of biology was the elucidation of the laws of genetics by...
The most intensively cropped experimental site in Asia began four decades ago largely as a demonstration plot...
Approximately 70% of the world’s 1.3 billion poor people live in Asia, where rice is the staple...
In the years following World War II, there was growing concern about the food problem in Asia....
The first Green Revolution substantially increased rice production in the Philippines, using a package of new seeds,...
