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Newsletter / Bulletin
Striga weed control with herbicide-coated maize seed
(CIMMYT, 2002)
The witchweed Striga decimates maize, millet, sorghum, upland rice and Napier throughout sub-Sahara Africa. From the high plateau of East Africa where peasant farmers struggle to survive on tiny fields of maize, to the ...
Book
Successful community-based seed production strategies
(CIMMYT, 2004)
Designed to address the issues that limit the access of small-scale farmers in sub-Saharan Africa to quality, affordable seed of the crops on which they depend for food security and livelihoods, this collection of articles ...
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Annual Report
Insect Resistant Maize for Africa (IRMA) Project: annual report 2003-2004
(KARI; CIMMYT, 2005)
The IRMA project is aimed at producing stem borer resistant, locally adapted maize varieties for various Kenyan agro-ecological zones using conventional and biotechnology-mediated approaches, particularly Bt technology. ...
Conference Proceedings
Proceedings of the: 12th Regional Wheat Workshop for Eastern, Central and Southern Africa
(2006)
Like its predecessors, the 12th Regional Wheat Workshop for Eastern, Central and Southern Africa, held at Merica Hotel in Nakuru, Kenya , 22–26 November 2004 provided a forum where wheat scientists from the region could ...
Conference Proceedings
The eleventh regional wheat workshop for Eastern, Central and Southern Africa
(CIMMYT, 2000)
The Eleventh Regional Wheat Workshop: For Eastern, Central and Southern Africa, held in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia 18-22 September, 2000.
Report
External review and impact assessment of the african highlands initiative (AHI): program evaluation report
(CIMMYT, 2008)
It is widely acknowledged that INRM is a means of achieving the CGIAR’s multiple goals of food security, poverty alleviation, and protection of the natural environment. The CGIAR has defined INRM as "a way of doing ...
Article
Bt-transgenic maize does not deter oviposition by two important African cereal stem borers, Chilo partellus Swinhoe (Lepidoptera: Crambidae) and Sesamia calamistis Hampson (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae)
(FacT Limited, 2008)
Objective: To assess Chilo partellus Swinhoe (Lepidoptera: Crambidae) and Sesamia calamistis Hampson (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae) ovipositional responses on Bt (Event 216, containing the Cry1Ab gene) and isogenic non-Bt (CML ...
Article
Breeding and disseminating quality protein maize (QPM) for Africa
(Academic Journals, 2007)
Quality protein maize (QPM) describes a range of maize cultivars with twice the content of limiting amino acids lysine and tryptophan compared with conventional maize, and has been developed to help reduce human malnutrition ...
Article
Developing Bt maize for resource-poor farmers - Recent advances in the IRMA project
(Academic Journals, 2005)
This paper presents an overview of the advances in the IRMA project, which develops insect resistant maize varieties for resource-poor farmers, using both conventional breeding and genetic engineering. The project started ...