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CIAT in Perspective
2000-2001

Getting the Better
of Global Change

Contents

Perspective in Practice

• Toward a global research system: Director general's message
• Nurturing rural livelihoods in the tropics: CIAT's strategic plan for 2001-2010

• Future Harvest

Getting the Better of Global Change

• Risky farming in a hotter world
• Global science versus the whitefly
• Sustainable livestock production for Mexico and beyond
• The road to research impact

Research and Development Highlights

• Saving wild peanuts
• Fortifying beans and cassava
• Biosafety: Progressing with caution
• Biotechnology by and for farmers
• Unmasking a major cassava disease
• People power in the Amazon
• Integrated agroenterprise projects
• Soil scientists and farmers find a common language
• Local action plans for natural resource management
• The Amazonian ecosystem and human health
• Participatory methods prove their worth

The Power of Perspective