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Published online 19 March 2008 | Nature 452, 273-277 (2008) | doi:10.1038/452273a
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Water: More crop per drop
Farmers' yields in the developing world are often limited by unreliable rains. Improving their harvests will require plant breeders, agronomists and geneticists to pull together - but can these experts work out their differences? Emma Marris reports.
The International Assessment of Agricultural Science and Technology was to be to agriculture what the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change is to climate: the definitive statement of the scientific art. Hundreds of researchers have worked on the report for five years.
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