"The director of a key agency's crop programme – the Ethiopian Institute of Agricultural Research – came to a workshop on maize and malaria and stated that he was convinced of the link, but then honestly advised us that his primary mandate from his bosses was food production and that the government was committed to maize as the engine of that growth," says McCann.
Opium purchases for medicinal uses and substitute crop programmes with wheat, saffron and pomegranates will not stanch the demand for illicit drug production.
A crop life table can be used to understand the factors that regulate losses during crop production to establish a sustainable crop management programme.
Farc commits to cut all links to drug trafficking, support an illicit crop eradication programme, and to provide information and support for mine-clearing efforts that will alleviate humanitarian concerns and make coca eradication more efficient.
That fitted well with Marxist ideology about the mutability of nature, but wrecked the Soviet Union's crop-improvement programme.In this section The story of man Patriot games Brussels fudge Néstor unbound Gerontocapitalism Reprints Related items Stem cells: Running for coverDec 20th 2005The reverse phenomenon, of discounting something because of its source, applies too.
After reviewing and analysing physiological specialty of Rayadas, we are convinced with their special traits that could be certainly used as excellent resources for future crop improvement programme as well as basic scientific studies.
A crop-eradication programme, though easing the flow of conditional US aid, has incensed many of Bolivia's poorest farmers for whom coca is often the only source of income.
However, only two accessions of these kale and fodder types with A 01 or C 01 chloroplasts are classed as 'advanced cultivars' (i.e. resulting from a formal modern crop improvement programme).
In the 2008 consensus, steps to address undernutrition were given a higher priority, with five nutritional interventions appearing in the top ten health priorities, including micronutrient supplementation for children (vitamin A and Zn) and micronutrient fortification (Fe and salt iodisation), biofortification of crops, nutrition programmes at school and community-based nutrition promotion.
