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CropBiotech Update
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A weekly summary of world developments in agri-biotech for developing countries, produced by the Global Knowledge Center on Crop Biotechnology, International Service for the Acquisition of Agri-biotech Applications SEAsiaCenter (ISAAA).
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FAO's Diouf Appeals for New World Food Security System
Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) Director-General Jacques Diouf called for a World Summit in 2009 to ?lay the ground for a new system of governance of world food security and an agricultural trade that offers farmers, in developed and developing countries alike, the means of earning a decent living.? He made this appeal during a special sess...
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CGIAR Centers "Generate High Economic Rates of Return on Investments"
Agricultural research done by Centers supported by the Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research (CGIAR) and their national partners in South Asia have provided ?essential outputs that have helped maintain productivity, growth in agriculture, generated high economic rates of return on investments and, indirectly, through the price e...
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1.65 Million People in Africa Benefit from Cassava?s Comeback
Following years of massive crop losses caused by a devastating virus, farmers from Africa?s Great Lakes Region are once again harvesting healthy cassava, according to the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO). Cassava is one of Africa?s most important staples, with each person in the region consuming 80 kilograms of the crop per ye...
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Africa?s Promise to Support Agriculture Not Kept
Despite a promise made in Mozambique in 2003 to allocate 10 percent of their budgets to agriculture by 2008, many African countries have not achieved that goal. At that time also, government leaders sought to support the Comprehensive Africa Agriculture Development Program (CAADP), an African-led initiative by the New Partnership for Africa's Devel...
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New Genetic Resources for Cereal Crops
David Garvin and his colleagues at the US Department of Agriculture?s Agricultural Research Service (ARS) developed a special population of plants of the wild grass Brachypodium distachyon which could help speed up scientists? search for genes that could protect cereal crops from diseases. The ARS scientists developed the first recombinant inbred l...
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Project to Map DNA of 1000 Plant Species
The government of Alberta, Canada, has launched the 1,000 Plants Initiative, an unprecedented, international project focused on "finding new genomic information that could lead to new medicines and a range of value-added plant products." The US $2 million project, which will be led by Gane Ka-Shu Wong, aims to map DNA of 1000 plant species. ?My wor...
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GM Carrots May Help Prevent Osteoporosis
A genetically modified carrot that provides more calcium has been developed by scientists at the Children?s Nutrition Research Center in Houston, Texas. Kendal Hirschi and colleagues boosted calcium levels by inducing carrots to express increased levels of sCAX1, a gene from the model plant Arabidopsis that encodes a calcium transporter. Most plant...
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