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Topic Note 6.1: ICT in the Agricultural Research Process. This section spans the entire agricultural research process from engaging partners and stakeholders, through data collection and analysis, collaboration and knowledge access, publishing and dissemination, to feedback and interactions with rural and other end-user communities. In each of these areas, ICTs are making agricultural research ...

In a world of 9.5 billion people, global demand for food, fiber, and biofuels has to be met with minimal possible increases in land, water, fossil fuels, and the minerals used to produce fertilizers (1–4). The problem is debated at three levels: first, that agriculture will not be able to produce enough because it will come up against both biophysical and environmental limits that restrict yiel...

The groundswell of mergers and acquisitions in the plant biotechnology industry over the last decade has been driven by the research assets required to develop new biotechnology products and by the strong patent system of the United States. These mergers generate concern that the concentration of patents, plant germplasm, and markets for biotechnology among a few firms may be causing a decline ...

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