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Fraley credits Borlaug with making technology available to small farmers
A past World Food Prize winner credits the prize’s founder with the idea of helping small farmers produce more with technology. 2013 World Food Prize Laureate Robb Fraley of Monsanto tells Brownfield that Norman Borlaug wondered in the early 90s how to get biotechnology into the hands of small farmers.
“So just imagine this,” Fraley told Brownfield Ag News Wednesday, “I mean this is three or four years before Roundup Ready soybeans or Bollgard cotton is launched in the U.S., Norm was already thinking about how could this help small farmers in India and Africa.”
Fraley acknowledges that his winning the World Food Prize was controversial because of his work developing GMO crops, but he says it fits well with Borlaug’s Green Revolution.
“If you help farmers it’s a double win,” said Fraley, “because not only do you address food security, because food production by small holders is critical, but small holders represent the bulk of the world’s rural poor, so you address both hunger and poverty at the same time.”
Four individuals – Drs. Maria Andrade, Robert Mwanga, Jan Low and Howarth Bouis – will be awarded the World Food Prize later this week in Des Moines.
AUDIO: Robb Fraley (8 min. MP3)
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Dr. Maged Abd El Azim Hamouda
He holds a PhD, Faculty of Agriculture, Mansoura University
Department of crops – crop breedingThe first Egyptian holds the title of breeder and intellectual property rights
Agricultural company
Activity and work: agricultural research company engaged in the production and breeding of field crops
Production and marketing of crops
Activity and work: agricultural research company engaged in the production and breeding of field crops
Production and marketing of crops
Dr. Maged Abd El Azim Ali Hamouda
Corn Breeder – Egypt
Targets and observations by working in Breeding programsEvaluate Breeding programs under the impact of climate change and environmental circumstance ? – And what is the extent of the impact of these variables on the biological factors in the emergence of new strains of satisfactory?
Egypt
Biodiversity – genetic diversity – change the nutritional content – diversity in breeding genotype of the plant – the impact of natural phenomena and environmental evidentiary and its impact on yield and its components as well as the effect of temperature directly on the surface of the ground – should take part of the world in the study of all these variables and quickly where it is within a few years the world will be subjected to the rate of collapse in the fast food needs – environmental variables grow faster than research
Thanks for all and greetings to you
Dr. Maged Hamouda
Commercial breeder cornEgypt
Dr. Majid Hamouda
What is the importance of anthocyanins pigment in corn breeding strains?
What is the significance of the election of these qualities?
What’s the point of this trait with the effects of climate change?
What is the significance of this trait in breeding drought-resistant programs?
What is the impact of water shortages on the bio-physiological changes in the plant what is the impact on biological agents in the soil as a result of the high degree of upper soil temperature?
What is the best from the standpoint of corn breeder program
1. flowering in early strains
2. Get an early flowering hybrids in
3. strains late in flowering
4. Get a late flowering hybrids
Formal specifications in pure breeds to be observed in Breeding program drought-resistant
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facbook: corn seeds
Environmental effects and climate changes
Egypt
Plant Breeding
Dr. Maged Hamouda
Question for discussion
Effect of climate change on the food basket of the world?
Is climate change impacts will lead to a shortage of the food basket of the world?
It will affect the peoples and leads to poverty and hunger?
What are the natural phenomena and evidentiary on climate change?
Are vary from state to state?
Climate is a research service and national indicators are given benchmark within the global research service
Give us a pointer to fill the food gap for the selection of the best genotypes that carry the new climatic and environmental changes of climate and environmental changes and evolves in a way faster than scientific research
Question for discussion ؟
Biodiversity – genetic diversity –
change the nutritional content – diversity in breeding genotype of the plant – the impact of natural phenomena and environmental evidentiary and its impact on yield and its components as well as the effect of temperature directly on the surface of the ground – should take part of the world in the study of all these variables and quickly where it is within a few years the world will be subjected to the rate of collapse in the fast food needs – environmental variables grow faster than research