Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) Grant

Organization - Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO)
Grant Amount - $485,640
Foundation - Rockefeller Foundation
Grant Purpose - toward the costs of developing for transfer and then transferring to scientists in Africa a cowpea breeding line resistant to pod-borer insects and of training and working with the African scientists to test its suitability to African environments


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Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) - $300,000 from the Rockefeller Foundation - toward the costs of developing a cowpea breeding line resistant against pod-borer insects, a major pest of cowpea in Africa

Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) - $132,250 from the Rockefeller Foundation - in support of research on genetic engineering of cowpea to create new varieties resistant to insect pests called pod borers

University of Pretoria - $102,490 from the Rockefeller Foundation - for use by its Department of Agricultural Economics, Extension and Rural Development to study the economic, socio-economic and health effects of the production and consumption of stem borer resistant, transgenic white maize in South Africa

University of KwaZulu-Natal - $1,054,930 from the Rockefeller Foundation - for use by its African Center for Crop Improvement to provide young scientists from eastern and southern Africa with Ph.D. training in modern crop breeding

University of KwaZulu-Natal - $1,000,000 from the Rockefeller Foundation - for use by its African Center for Crop Improvement to provide young scientists from eastern and southern Africa with Ph.D. training in modern crop breeding

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