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Cornell University

Farmers Ethiopia

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Prior to the efforts of the Ethiopian Institute for Agricultural Research and the Borlaug Global Rust Initiative to release local varieties of wheat with improved resistance to the devastating disease of Ug99 stem rust, this Ethiopian farmer and her son had given up planting wheat. Ronnie Coffman (center), international plant breeder and director of the newly funded Delivering Genetic Gain in Wheat project, meets with farmers like these to evaluate new disease resistant varieties.

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