Nourishing the Future through Scientific Excellence Consultative Group on international aGriCultural researCh
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In the 1960s when South Asians faced widespread famine, the technologydriven agricultural solutions of the Green Revolution (GR) were an unprecedented success, creating food surpluses within 25 years despite a 70% increase in population1. The GR raised many out of poverty, saved large areas of forest and wetlands from conversion to cropping, and helped launch the economic transformation of the region. But even as one important research agenda was fulfilled, new problems and challenges arose for national and international agricultural research systems.
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تاریخ انتشار 2008