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Date:12/10/2007

p opera won the 2005 World Bank Development Marketplace award, which provided additional resources to continue the program. The COM+ award includes $10,000 for IRRI to use for further communications initiatives.

Background information, with links to audio files of the series, is available at
http://partnerships.greenrice.net/partnersites/farmradio.

Koshihikari International Rice Prize

Darshan Brar has been chosen as one of two winners of the Koshihikari International Rice Prize for 2007. The award, named for a prized Japanese rice variety, recognizes rice researchers working in universities and international, national, and local agricultural research stations. Dr. Brar, who performs so-called wide crosses to breed into commercial varieties desirable characteristics of wild species of rice, received the award with co-winner Tantawi A. Badawi, president of the Agricultural Research Center, Cairo, Egypt, on 30 October in Fukui Prefecture, Japan. Each laureate is awarded 500,000 Japanese yen ($4,630).

CGIAR Outstanding Scientist Award

Compounding his reputation as an indefatigable champion of science for the poor, Dr. Brar also received at the CGIAR AGM the Groups Outstanding Scientist Award, which honors original work by a senior scientist whose contributions have actual or potential regional or international significance that furthers CGIAR goals.

A video that summarizes Dr. Brars research and achievements is available at www.irri.org/Brar.mpg.

CGIAR Outstanding Scientific Article Award

A team of scientists led by IRRI plant breeder David Mackill, in collaboration with colleagues from the University of California (Riverside and Davis), won the Outstanding Scientific Article Award, also presented at the AGM.

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Contact: Duncan Macintosh
d.macintosh@cgiar.org
632-580-5673
International Rice Research Institute
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