Climate and maize production

Federico Bert and Guillermo Podestá wrote the chapter “Variabilidad climática y toma de decisiones en el cultivo de maíz” [Climate variability and decision-making in maize cropping systems] for a handbook on maize production published by AACREA. The handbook, coordinated by project investigator Emilio Satorre, is intended to bring the latest developments in maize production to farmers, technical advisors, and Agronomy students in Argentina.

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Talk on interdisciplinary collaboration at international meeting

Dr. Cecilia Hidalgo (School of Philosophy, Univ. of Buenos Aires) presented a paper at ESOCITE 2008, an international meeting on social studies of science and technology. The meeting, which took place in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, on 28-30 May 2008, attracted hundreds of international experts on studies of science, technology and its relations hip to society.

The paper presented by Cecilia (co-authored by Claudia Natenzon, Kenny Broad and Guillermo Podesta) was titled “Changing views of the success of interdisciplinary research.” It described how criteria of success shifted during the course of the first 3-year project on climate and agriculture funded by NSF in Argentina.

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