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Intensified research effort yields climate-resilient agriculture to blunt impact of global warming

12-04-2006 · EurekAlert!

In reporting new forecasts of the devastating impact of climate change on food production in some of the globe's poorest regions, the world's largest alliance of international agricultural research centers today announced it is embarking on a new effort to intensify and streamline research to reduce developing countries' vulnerability to climate change caused by global warming.

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