Good News from Africa - Farmers, Agricultural Research, and Food in the Pantry (IFPRI, 1998, 72 p.): Back Cover

Good News from Africa - Farmers, Agricultural Research, and Food in the Pantry (IFPRI, 1998, 72 p.)

		(introduction...)
		Foreword
		Preface
		Yes, we do have bananas
		Blue and black lord of the flies
		Now the potatoes are shooting up
		THEME: MINING THE SOIL
		Millet - more than just bird seed
		Dairy cows under the coconut palms
		Without poison, but naturally
		THEME: NOURISHMENT AND UNDERNOURISHMENT
		Down-to-earth research
		More than a hill of beans
		A winning way with weeds
		THEME: AGRICULTURE IS IMPORTANT - FOR A HOST OF REASONS
		To grow green, the maize must wither
		But you don't use cows for plowing
		THEME: AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH ALONE WON'T DO IT
		Getting the rice right
		CGIAR research institutions* discussed in this book
		Addresses
		Back Cover

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Hardworking farmers' wives threshing millet in Zimbabwe. Researchers in white coats sitting at electron microscopes in laboratories in India. What can they possibly have to do with one another? The answer is: a great deal. It was the researchers who propagated the new varieties of grain that have led to greater yields on African farms and full stomachs for the farmers' families. That, in a nutshell, is just one of the many heartening stories recounted in this book. Good News from Africa describes how, with the support of the international community, agricultural research is achieving valuable results. And it introduces the reader to those farmers whom the researchers have helped to a better and more secure way of life.