3 February 2011: A new publication from Bioversity International, "The Global Diversity of Taro," addresses approaches to combatting diseases like taro leaf blight. Bioversity International is a member of the Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research (CGIAR).
February 2011: The International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI), a center of the Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research (CGIAR), has released a paper assessing opportunities and challenges for mobilizing nanotechnologies for agriculture, food and water for the benefit of poor farmers in developing countries.
8 February 2011: The ninth Rights and Resources (RRI) Dialogue on Forests, Governance and Climate Change took place in London, UK, on 8 February 2011, bringing together international and non-governmental organizations, civil servants and representatives from civil society organizations, academia and the private sector to discuss the latest developments on reducing emissions from deforestation and forest degradation in developing countries, plus the role of conservation, sustainable management of forests and enhancement of forest carbon stocks (REDD+).
8 February 2011: The Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR) has released the February edition of its News Update as part of its year-long development of a web-based communications strategy.
The theme for this conference is "The Water, Energy and Food Security Nexus: Solutions for the Green Economy." This high-level, invitation-only conference is organized by the German Federal Government in collaboration with the World Economic Forum (WEF), the World Wildlife Fund (WWF) and the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI). It will seek to contribute to the run-up to the UN Conference on Sustainable Development (UNCSD, or Rio+20), scheduled for June 2012. The background paper for the conference, "Understanding the Nexus," is now available at: http://www.water-energy-food.org/en/bonn_2011_process/show__50_understanding_the_nexus.html
3 February 2011: The International Center for Agricultural Research (CIAT) has played a central role in the development of a new disease-tolerant cassava variety.
February 2011: Following calls by Mohammad Katbeh Bader, chairperson of the Committee on Phytosanitary Measures (CPM), which is the International Plant Protection Convention's (IPPC) governing body, the EU and Norway have announced additional financial contributions to support IPPC implementation.
25 January 2011: iPlant Collaborative has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the Generation Challenge Programme (GCP) of the Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research (CGIAR) for the development of the GCP's Integrated Breeding Platform.
3 February 2011: In a video diary taken at Kew Gardens in London, UK, Andy Jarvis, senior scientist at the International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT), stressed the importance of conserving wild relatives of agricultural species.
21 January 2011: Malawi and Nigeria have released three new soybean varieties developed by national research institutes in coordination with the International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA).
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