全球的agricultural alliance sets its research agenda

[WELLINGTON] A global research alliance that aims to produce more food for the world’s growing population while reducing carbon emissions from agriculture has laid out its plans.

全球农业温室气体研究联盟 - 于2009年12月在哥本哈根气候峰会上启动（请参阅农业联盟誓言要增长更多，并发出更少的） - 本月初（4月7日至9日）在29个成员国中有28个在新西兰惠灵顿举行了第一次会议。

该联盟旨在弥合农业温室气体排放研究的差距，该研究占世界总排放量的14％。它还试图以国际规模协调此类研究，以确保科学家与其他国家以及他们自己的研究社区和农民分享他们的发现。

This was the first time policy officials and scientists had come together to discuss the alliance’s work for the next year, David Carter, New Zealand’s agriculture minister and the meeting’s co-host, toldscidev.net。

联盟成员同意了三个研究方面的同意：美国领导的作物管理研究；荷兰和新西兰共同领导的牲畜问题；以及由日本领导的稻米养殖调查。卡特说，还考虑了研究土壤碳在农业排放中作用的进一步研究领域。

Member states, including 13 developing countries, can decide which research groups are most relevant to their needs and join any of them, said Carter. The work across all three strands will initially focus on mitigation of greenhouse emissions, he added, and research must be clearly defined to avoid overlap with existing knowledge.

他说，发展中国家对联盟很重要，因为他们的排放中通常来自农业。beplay下载官网西西软件

"The quickest way [developing countries] will get access [to the alliance’s research], without doubt, is to become members. But if you’re talking about a particular project and whether that technology will be free — we don’t know yet. Those are some of the tricky issues surrounding intellectual property we have to work through in the future."

美国在会议上宣布，它将为发展中国家的农业研究人员提供十项奖学金，以协作联盟的研究。

会议还同意将在2011年完成的宪章草案。新西兰将担任临时秘书处。

该联盟的发展中国家成员国是：阿根廷，智利，哥伦比亚，加纳，印度，印度尼西亚，马来西亚，墨西哥，巴基斯坦，秘鲁，菲律宾，乌拉圭和越南。巴西和中国以观察员的身份参加了惠灵顿会议。