The Borlaug Global Rust Initiative (BGRI - originally named the Global Rust Initiative) was founded in response to recommendations of a committee of international experts who met to consider a response to the threat the global food supply posed by the Ug99 strain of wheat rust. The BGRI was renamed the Borlaug Global Rust initiative in honor of Green Revolution pioneer and Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Dr. Norman Borlaug who worked to establish and lead the Global Rust Initiative.
The BGRI has the overarching objective of systematically reducing the world’s vulnerability to stem, yellow, and leaf rusts of wheat and advocating/facilitating the evolution of a sustainable international system to contain the threat of wheat rusts and continue the enhancements in productivity required to withstand future global threats to wheat.
Chair: Jeanie Borlaug Laube
Ronnie Coffman (Cornell University), Vice Chairman of BGRI
Martin Kropf, Director General, CIMMYT,
Trilochan Mohapatra, Director General, Indian Council of Agricultural Research,
Mahmoud Solh Director General, ICARDA
Clayton Campanhola, Director of Agricultural Support Systems FAO
John Manners, Director, CSIRO Agriculture
David Wall, Acting Director Research, Development and Technology, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada
Huajin Tang, VP for International Collaboration, China Academy of Agricultural Sciences
Lene Lange, Director of Research, Aalborg University, Denmark
Fentahun Mengistu, Director General, Ethiopian Institute for Agricultural Research
Abd El Moneam El Banna, President, Egyptian Agricultural Research Center
Eskander Zand, Deputy Minister and Head, Agricultural Research, Education and Extension Organization, Iran
Eliud Kireger, Director General, Kenya Agricultural and Livestock Research Organization
Masum Burak, Director General of the General Directorate of Agricultural Research, Turkey
Iftikhar Ahmad, Chairman, Pakistan Agricultural Research Council
Jose Costa, Deputy Administrator, Crop Production and Protection, USDA-ARS
Alvaro Roel, President, INIA, Uruguay
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