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...says Dr Vibha Dhawan, Director, Bioresources and Biotechnology at The Energy and Resources Institute in New Delhi. "Not just high temperatures but fluctuating temperatures. Not just drought but also floods." We already have such varieties but we've forgotten about them during the last 40-50 years of high-input agriculture. She says better crops need to be re-discovered and developed through traditional methods as well as new technologies such as genetically modified seeds. "And we need to build a buffer stock of such seeds," she adds. If India hopes to get back and stay on a high-growth...
...local and not at a chain or branch store, chances are that store is not making a huge profit," says David Morris, Vice President of the Institute for Local Self-Reliance, a nonprofit economic research and development organization based in Minneapolis and Washington, D.C. "That means more goes into input costs-supplies and upkeep, printing, advertising, paying employees-which puts that money right back in the community...
...gather ideas, input, and ensure the community understands the extent of the financial challenge,” Smith wrote in an e-mail to a student who requested anonymity to preserve relations with the administration, “but there will always be a part of this process that must occur thoughtfully and quietly behind closed doors...
...while administrators have formed working groups to gather input, and prominently flagged a “Web resource” to communicate most, but not all, of the cutbacks, decisions regarding the next round of cuts appear likely to again be purview...
...addition, from the point of view of bringing the Harvard community together, these areas have the obvious benefit of requiring input from many—indeed most—of our faculties across the University. As intellectual matters, they touch on everything from basic research and scholarship to challenging and important applications that engage our professional schools. The issues presented by global health, energy, and the environment also cross the boundaries of the natural sciences, engineering, the social sciences, and the humanities. For example, the dissemination of antiretroviral drugs in South Africa has, until recently, been inhibited by benighted leadership...