Rainwater harvesting, a succesful case rewarded by FONTAGRO

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The Regional Fund for Agricultural Technology (FONTAGRO, its Spanish acronym) announced on 14 March that the case “Transforming Rain-fed to Irrigation Agriculture through Rainwater Harvesting in Nicaragua and Mexico,” submitted by the Latin American Fund for Irrigated Rice (FLAR) and the International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT), was among the winners of the contest for innovative cases of family…

Edward Pulver: Searching for the heart of yield

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Dr. Pulver is a scientist with a global mission: improve farmers’ lives by raising crop yields. His accomplishments range from increasing Peru’s national rice production, to developing a system for evaluating rice resistance to blast in Colombia. From reducing yield gaps in the irrigated rice production of Venezuela and Brazil, to improving agricultural productivity in Nicaragua and Mexico.