Roots and Tubers in the Global Food System: A Vision Statement to the Year 2020

Roots and Tubers in the Global Food System: A Vision Statement to the Year 2020
ISBN-10
9290602031
ISBN-13
9789290602033
Category
Root crops
Pages
111
Language
English
Published
2000
Publisher
IITA
Authors
Gregory J. Scott, Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research. Committee on Inter-Centre Root and Tuber Crops Research

Description

In 1995, TAC commissioned an Inter-Centre Review of Root and Tuber Crops Research in the CGIAR, and that group's final report was submitted in April 1996. Among its findings, the review recommended that the Centers working on these crops prepare, in consultation with non-CGIAR members, "a comprehensive, documented text that sets out a vision for root and tuber research employing inter-Centre collaborations and institutional partnerships ... "(TAC, 1997). At International Centers' Week 1996, representatives of CIAT, CIP, IFPRI, IPGRI, and IITA met, formed an informal committee, and established a task force to prepare such a report, with CIP and CIAT representatives acting as co-convenors. This document synthesizes the principal findings of the subsequent work. Roots and tuber crops have myriad and complex roles to play in feeding the world in the coming decades. Far from being one sort of crop that serves one specific purpose, they will be many things to many-very many-people.

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