{"id":3013,"date":"2009-01-26T10:35:08","date_gmt":"2009-01-26T09:35:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ethicalquote.com\/index.php\/2009\/01\/26\/us-african-partnership-developing-drought-tolerant-maize\/"},"modified":"2009-02-20T10:45:18","modified_gmt":"2009-02-20T09:45:18","slug":"us-african-partnership-developing-drought-tolerant-maize","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/2009\/01\/26\/us-african-partnership-developing-drought-tolerant-maize\/","title":{"rendered":"U.S.-African Partnership Developing Drought-Tolerant Maize"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.america.gov\/st\/scitech-english\/2009\/January\/20090126135419abretnuh0.9448206.html\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"090220_monsanto.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ethicalquote.com\/newTemplate\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/090220_monsanto.jpg\" title=\"090220_monsanto.jpg\" alt=\"090220_monsanto.jpg\" align=\"right\" \/><\/a>Biotechnology is a key component of a public-private partnership that could save millions of lives by developing drought-tolerant maize for small-scale farming operations in sub-Saharan Africa. More than 300 million Africans depend on maize as their main food source. The partnership \u2013 known as Water Efficient Maize for Africa (WEMA) \u2013 was formed because crop yields are reduced greatly by frequent droughts in Africa, leading to hunger and poverty. \u201cThis project, conducted mostly in Africa for Africans, will result in improved maize hybrids, yielding an additional 25 percent more grain under moderate drought conditions, compared to the best African seed currently available,\u201d Vanessa Cook, U.S. agricultural company Monsanto\u2019s WEMA project lead, told <em>America.gov<\/em>. Image source: america.gov. &gt; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.america.gov\/st\/scitech-english\/2009\/January\/20090126135419abretnuh0.9448206.html\" target=\"_blank\">Continue<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-size: 9pt; font-family: Arial\" lang=\"EN-GB\">Message received by Covalence | Region: <\/span><st1:country-region><st1:place><span style=\"font-size: 9pt; font-family: Arial\" lang=\"EN-GB\"><\/span><\/st1:place><\/st1:country-region>sub-Saharan Africa<span style=\"font-size: 9pt; font-family: Arial\" lang=\"EN-GB\"> | Company: <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 9pt; line-height: 115%\" lang=\"EN-US\">Monsanto<\/span> <span lang=\"FR\"><\/span><span style=\"font-size: 9pt; font-family: Arial\"><span style=\"color: black\"><\/span> | Source: <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.america.gov\/st\/scitech-english\/2009\/January\/20090126135419abretnuh0.9448206.html\" target=\"_blank\">America.gov<\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.france2.fr\/\"><span style=\"line-height: 115%\"><\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-size: 9pt; font-family: Arial\" lang=\"EN-GB\"> | Correspondent: <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 9pt; font-family: Arial\"><a href=\"mailto:fuldep@yahoo.fr\"><span lang=\"EN-GB\">Barth\u00e9l\u00e9my Kilosho, FULDEP<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Biotechnology is a key component of a public-private partnership that could save millions of lives by developing drought-tolerant maize for small-scale farming operations in sub-Saharan Africa. More than 300 million Africans depend on maize as their main food source. The partnership \u2013 known as Water Efficient Maize for Africa (WEMA) \u2013 was formed because crop&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":665,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"wds_primary_category":0,"wds_primary_post_series":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[64],"post_series":[],"class_list":["post-3013","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-messages","tag-monsanto","entry","no-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3013","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/665"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3013"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3013\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3013"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3013"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3013"},{"taxonomy":"post_series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post_series?post=3013"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}