NEWS

Global
• FAO Director-General Calls on Academia in Fight Against Hunger 
• IFPRI Modeling Study Shows Which Technologies Provide Significant Yield Improvement 

Africa
• South Africa GM Maize Gets Commodity Clearance 
• Kenyan Farmers Benefit from Customized Maize Seeds for Dryland Areas 
• World Bank Report Urges African Countries to Harmonize Biosafety Regulation 
• IITA releases Vitamin A-enriched Maize in Nigeria 

Americas
• Drought Tolerant Corn Shows Promising Results 
• Giving Winter Wheat Research a Boost with a $475,000 investment in Canada 
• Conservation Tillage Saves Oil, Soil and Toil in Cotton 
• US Gov't Funds Research on Shrub Willow as Biofuel Potential 
• IRM's Contribution to Stewardship of Bt Crops 

Asia and the Pacific
• Australian Research Partnership for Increasing Wheat Yield 
• OGTR Issues License for Environmental Release of GM Cotton 
• GRDC Releases Five Year Strategic Plan 2012-2017 
• Tel Aviv Researcher Says Plants can See, Smell, Feel, and Taste 
• National Gene Bank at NIB Bangladesh 

Europe
• TEAGASC to Investigate Environmental Impact of GM Blight Resistant Potatoes 
• Glover: GE Food Poses No Risk 
• ISGA Farmers Share Biotechnology Experience with French Stakeholders 
• GM Feeding Studies Show Bt Maize OK for Pigs 
• Gene Technology Helps Deceive Greedy Pest Insects 

Research
• Suppression of Pink Bollworm on Non-Bt Cotton by Bt Cotton in China 
• Glyphosate Tolerance in GM Canola by a Modified gox Gene 
• Effect of Cleistogamy in GM Rice Agronomic Traits and Gene Containment 

Announcements
• 2nd Global Conference on Agriculture, Food Security and Climate Change 

Document Reminders
• Agricultural Innovation Systems and Family Farming Summary Report 
• Online Knowledge Bank to Help Farmers Fight Crop Pests and Diseases 
• Global Wheat Rust Monitoring Website 
• How Do "Imagined Farmers" Negotiate Actual Risks? 
• CCAFS Annual Report Now Available