Lecture: Improving the Lives of Smallholder Farmers in Africa and South Asia
| Date/Time: | Monday, 22 Feb 2010 at 8:00 pm |
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| Location: | Sun Room, Memorial Union |
| Cost: | Free |
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| Phone: | 515-294-9934 |
| Channel: | Lecture Series |
| Categories: | Lectures |
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Gates Foundation-funded projects include:
- Drought Tolerant Maize for Africa (CIMMYT, $39.1M over 5 years)
- Tropical Legumes 1 -developing molecular makers (Generation Challenge Program, $9.6M over 3 years)
- Tropical Legumes 2 -developing and delivering varieties for six legumes in Africa and South Asia (International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics, $20.6M over 3 years)
- Stress Tolerant Rice for Africa and South Asia (International Rice Research Institute, $19.9M over 3 years)
- "Green Super Rice" for the Resource-Poor of Africa and Asia (CAAS, $18.2M over 3 years)
- Cereal System initiative for South Asia (IRRI, $19.6M over 3 years)
- One Apollo Project: Creating the second Green Revolution by supercharging photosynthesis: C4-rice (IRRI, $11M over 3 years)
- Agricultural Information System: Weather Surfaces (Tulane Univ./ AWhere, $472, 823 over 18 months)
- A Molecular Breeding Platform (Generation Challenge Program/CIMMYT), $11,994,250 over 5 years)