Author : Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research. Committee on Inter-Centre Root and Tuber Crops Research,Gregory J. Scott
Publisher : IITA
Page : 120 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Root crops
ISBN : 9290602031
Roots and Tubers in the Global Food System by Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research. Committee on Inter-Centre Root and Tuber Crops Research,Gregory J. Scott Pdf
In 1995, TAC commissioned an Inter-Centre Review of Root and Tuber Crops Research in the CGIAR, and that group's final report was submitted in April 1996. Among its findings, the review recommended that the Centers working on these crops prepare, in consultation with non-CGIAR members, "a comprehensive, documented text that sets out a vision for root and tuber research employing inter-Centre collaborations and institutional partnerships ... "(TAC, 1997). At International Centers' Week 1996, representatives of CIAT, CIP, IFPRI, IPGRI, and IITA met, formed an informal committee, and established a task force to prepare such a report, with CIP and CIAT representatives acting as co-convenors. This document synthesizes the principal findings of the subsequent work. Roots and tuber crops have myriad and complex roles to play in feeding the world in the coming decades. Far from being one sort of crop that serves one specific purpose, they will be many things to many-very many-people.
