The Dry Areas cover more than 40 percent of the world’s land surface and are home to 2.5 billion people. These regions are also characterized by poverty, food insecurity, frequent droughts, and widespread environmental degradation. A worrying...
Lentil (Lens culinaris Medikus): a whole food rich in prebiotic carbohydrates to combat global obesity
Lentil (Lens culinaris Medik.) is a cool season food legume that is high in protein (20–30%) and in a range of micronutrients (e.g., minerals, carotenoids,folates) but very low in phytic acid. Recent research indicates that lentil contains a...
CGIAR Center Directors meet President of the World Bank to discuss global impacts of agricultural research and solutions.
A CGIAR delegation met Dr. Jim Yong Kim, World Bank President to review the potential returns on investment from World Bank’s continued partnership with CGIAR.
Improving Water Productivity in Semi-arid Environments through Regulated Deficit Irrigation
A twelve-year experiment (1998-2009) was conducted at Tal Amara Research Station in Lebanon to determine the effects of deficit irrigation on yield and water productivity in six annual crops; maize (1998-1999), soybean (2000-2001), cotton (2001-...
