Cross-posted on CSI Blog Researchers from IITA, Bioversity, CIAT and CIP met last week at CIAT headquarters in Cali, Colombia to advance geographic targeting and priority setting for the  Roots, Tubers and Bananas (RTB) research program.  Our activity is a background analysis for the larger RTB priority setting process that extends into the middle of 2013.
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Within CCAFS Adaption to Progressive Climate Change theme, one of the objectives is to generate comprehensive strategies for crop improvement through a combination of modeling, expert consultation and stakeholder dialogue, and translating these insights into coordinated global, regional and national research and technology investment policies. As part of its 2011 activities and in collaboration with
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DAPA researchers and partners joined their colleagues in the CGIAR-CSI in a special session on climate change adaptation and mitigation at the 2011 ESRI International User conference. Abstracts and presentations follow: Climate Change in the Subtropics: The Impacts on Banana Productivity by J. Ramirez, D. Turner, I. Van den Bergh, C. Staver, D. Brown and
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Would you grow bananas here? Thought not.  But amazingly, this is the scene of a booming organic banana business which is competing with the Dominican Republic to deliver organic bananas to environmentally conscientious consumers in Europe and the US.  In a visit to Piura, Peru, I was told that this is now a US$50 million
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