Poverty alleviation provides impetus for CGIAR germplasm research

摘要

"A compelling moral and ethical imperative underpins the need for a global research effort to harness the best of science to meet the needs of the poor in an environmentally sustainable manner," stated Maurice Strong at a September briefing to the media at the World Bank in Washington, DC. Strong, chair of the Earth Council and Secretary-General of the 1992 UN Conference on Environment and Development (UNCED), made the remarks after toiling for 18 months as chair of an international panel of experts convened to assess the work of the dollar 350 million Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research's (CGIAR).