Making Development Work in Africa : Our Common Interest

9 Making Rice Genomics Work for Africa

108 (eds M.C.S. Wopereis et al.) Africa are already in place. These include diverse germplasm resources, reference genome sequences (RefSeq) for both wild and cultivated Oryza species, highand low-density SNP arrays and sequence-based genotyping platforms, co ordinated phenotyping networks, and models and strategies for using genomics information to predict phenotypic performance in a breeding ...

Making nutrition work for development.

Our academy, our mission, our work!

This publication finds me at the half-way point of my tenure as president of the American Academy of Pain Medicine. It is therefore timely to review our academy’s goals and progress, reflecting upon and inspecting our work together as a committed and talented group of management team members and volunteer leaders. To share highlights of the year-to-date, I have created a “virtual interview,” po...

Common interest

scientific and medical advice. That is what we are looking for from the work of this review group. " Barroso told EU leaders that food price rises had added " a new dimension " to the public debate about GM crops. He admitted people were worried about GM organisms in food and farming, but he said the EU was probably one of the biggest importers of GM feed as its livestock industry was highly de...

Making technological innovation work for sustainable development.

This paper presents insights and action proposals to better harness technological innovation for sustainable development. We begin with three key insights from scholarship and practice. First, technological innovation processes do not follow a set sequence but rather emerge from complex adaptive systems involving many actors and institutions operating simultaneously from local to global scales....