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Last update: 8 May 2008

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2006 Annual Report

See the latest progress report of the Bean Improvement for the Tropics Project, which presents project research highlights during 2006, as well as detailed descriptions of its major activities.

Download the summary (171 kb).

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Bean Consumption in Colombia

Live well, eat beans!

This brochure (in Spanish) aims to promote the consumption of beans as a dietary component that helps prevent life-threatening diseases.

Download the brochure (222 kb).

Contact: Matthew Blair

From the CGIAR Newsletter

Finding the Seeds of Recovery Close to Home

Research led by Louise Sperling of the Seed Systems Under Stress Program finds that stressed communities usually need seed imports less than help in restoring farmers’ ability to buy and use locally available seed.

Donating seeds is one of many forms of aid offered to farm communities under stress. More unusual is to offer seed system relief and, even more unusual, to study the effectiveness of such relief. This is what the Seed Systems Under Stress Program does in Africa, where most seed aid is sent. The program is a broad-based, fluid coalition whose members aim to improve the effectiveness of seed-related responses to disaster. They see seed systems as central to smallholder agriculture and seed aid as key to supporting it.

Read the whole story: www.cgiar.org/enews/march2007/story_02.htm

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