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| | CGIAR: Newsroom: Scientific Recognition |
 | | Shaobing Peng, from IRRI, and his co-authors won the "Science Award for an Outstanding Scientific Article" for the research article "Rice yields decline with higher night temperature from global warming" published in the Proceedings of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences in 2004. |
 | | Patricia Shanley, from CIFOR, won the "Science Award for Outstanding Communications" for her work co-editing, in conjunction with Gabriel Medina, the book or "Fruit Trees and Useful Plants in the Lives of Amazonians" (or Fruitiferas e Plantas Uteis na Vida Amazonica in Portuguese). |
 | | The first awards are presented to Shaobing Peng (IRRI), Thelma Paris (IRRI), Shashi Sharma (ICRISAT) and, in partnership, to IITA and the Institute of Agricultural Research (IAR). |
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