This paper reviews current knowledge and experience with food-based approaches to reduce vitamin A and iron deficiencies. It presents a review of recently published literature, highlights some of the lessons learned, and identifies knowledge gaps and research priorities. Plant breeding...

Because trace minerals are important not only for human nutrition, but for plant nutrition as well, plant breeding holds great promise for making a significant low-cost and sustainable contribution to reducing micronutrient deficiencies in humans, and may have important spinoff effects for...

CONTENTS: Brief 1. Introduction / Eugenio Díaz-Bonilla and Sherman Robinson Brief 2. The Nature of Disagreements / Ravi Kanbur Brief 3. Growth and Poverty / Manohar Sharma, Sam Morley, and Eugenio Díaz-Bonilla Brief 4. Trade and Food Security / Eugenio Díaz-Bonilla and Marcelle Thomas Brief...

CONTENTS: Brief 1. Overview / Rafael Flores Brief 2. The Global Burden of Disease / Alan D. Lopez Brief 3. HIV/AIDS / Anthony Barnett and Gabriel Rugalema Brief 4. Malaria / Andrea Egan Brief 5. Tuberculosis / Ariel Pablos-Mendez Brief 6. Intrauterine Growth Retardation / Mercedes de Onis Brief...

This paper presents the milestones of the Green Revolution, outlining its role in the development of today's sustainable and biotechnological agriculture, as well as Romanian contribution. In order to do this we used the material found in papers and books on the research in agriculture from the...

There is a growing trend to widespread privatisation of crop breeding, and there are groundsfor expecting this trend to continue and even to accelerate. Possible consequences forAustralian grain growers and the national interest of much greater private sector involvementin plant breeding are...