Nacikgoz

REORIENTATION NEED OF AGRICULTURAL INVESTMENTS

03/10/2013

Recent unforeseen developments in world geography and expected demographic realities lead almost everyone to ask each other: “when will we be experiencing food crises?” Lately increasing climate change stories come to the point: S. Arabia has decided to stop up 2015 to grow one of the main crop (wheat) due to drought[1]. On the other… » read more

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30/09/2013

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Agriculture, biotechnology, climate change, biofuel, science will not give opportunity to the food crisis

Nazimi Açıkgöz graduated from Ankara University in 1964 and earned his Ph D. degree at Munich Technical University in 1972. He then joined Ege University and worked there until his retirement in2009.

His rice breeding studies were supported by CENTO, NATO, IAEA and TUBITAK and at the end, a rice variety “TOAG92" has been registered. His studies on computer use in agriculture were on seed database management system and biostatistics. One of his packages TARIST (Agrostatistics) is still the only Turkish software in this area.

He is one of the founders of the “Seed Center” at Ege University, which has been directed between the years 1998-2004 by him. He was also one of the lead-author of World Bank’s IAASTD report.


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