On DEVELOPMENT REPORT:  The World Community Grid is joining together individual computers to create massive processing power.  The technology is helping reduce research time from years to months.

On DEVELOPMENT REPORT: Scientists develop herbicide-resistant seeds that can kill the parasitic plant.

On DEVELOPMENT REPORT: The RANET project helps national weather services improve their reach.

ON DEVELOPMENT REPORT: How to build an evaporative cooler. Also, how to prepare fruits and vegetables for cold storage.

On DEVELOPMENT REPORT: The U.N. holds a high-level conference on world food security this week in Rome. In Washington, a research group says greater investment in female farmers would increase agricultural productivity.

On DEVELOPMENT REPORT: The winners of a competition held by two groups, Global Water Challenge and Ashoka’s Changemakers, will each get $5,000.

On DEVELOPMENT REPORT: A listener wonders if the birds could be caught and exported to crisis areas as protein to prevent starvation.

On DEVELOPMENT REPORT: Scientists finally discover how the world's most widely used repellent works.

On DEVELOPMENT REPORT: The site offers free curriculum for kindergarten through grade 12 in areas such as math, science, reading and language.

On DEVELOPMENT REPORT: FreeRice.com is an English vocabulary game that aims to fight hunger.

On DEVELOPMENT REPORT: This year's winners are from Ecuador, Mozambique, Puerto Rico, Mexico, Russia and Belgium.

On DEVELOPMENT REPORT: Vital Voices, a nonprofit, presented awards for work in Argentina, Burma, France, Kenya and the United Arab Emirates.

On DEVELOPMENT REPORT: Goldman Sachs will give one hundred million dollars over the next five years to its new 10,000 Women program. Partnering universities will provide women in developing countries with business education and training.

On DEVELOPMENT REPORT: A study says the number of Asians with H.I.V. could double to 10 million by 2020 unless prevention efforts expand. And scientists meet in the U.S. to discuss the latest setbacks in developing an AIDS vaccine.

On DEVELOPMENT REPORT: Amnesty International says those already infected face abuses, while others face a higher risk of becoming infected.

On DEVELOPMENT REPORT: Envirofit International plans to begin selling a clean-burning stove in southern India in May.

On DEVELOPMENT REPORT: The Full Belly Project fights hunger in rural villages with labor-saving machines, including the Universal Nut Sheller.

On DEVELOPMENT REPORT: Economists at M.I.T.'s Jameel Poverty Action Lab have found no evidence that paying for a product in the developing world changes how people use it.

On DEVELOPMENT REPORT: TechnoServe is a 40-year-old group that has helped create or improve more than 2,000 businesses in the developing world.

On DEVELOPMENT REPORT: A private group, the U.S. Center for Citizen Diplomacy, recognizes six Americans for their work for cultural understanding.