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Seed, soil, and science: networking for sustainable maize farming in Central America and the Caribbean
(CIMMYT, 1994)
The Regional Maize Program (Programa Regional de Maíz, or PRM) A networks of maize researchers from nine countries and the International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT) in Mexico. With funding and guidance from ...
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Maize for Colombia 2030 Vision
(CIMMYT; CIAT, 2019)
In Colombia, maize is the third crop with the largest cultivation area after coffee and rice. In spite of this, it is the country with the highest volume of imports in South America, and the seventh in the world. Maize is ...
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Lead farmers: enhancing agricultural resilience and sustainability in Eastern and Southern Africa
(CIMMYT, 2019)
In the following pages you will read inspiring and moving accounts by men and women farmers across eastern and southern Africa who have bravely embraced change to improve their farming methods and hence the lives and ...
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Maize technology in Malawi: a green revolution in the making?
(CIMMYT, 1995)
This case study of technical change in maize production in Malawi seeks to answer the question of whether the diffusion of improved maize seed and fertilizer among Malawian smallholder farmers will create the sharp yield ...
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Cereal grain policy analysis in the national agricultural research systems of Eastern and Southern Africa
(SADC; ICRISAT; CIMMYT, 1993)
In 1990, economists of the Southern Africa Development Community/International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (SADC/ICRISAT) and the International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT) launched a ...
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Adoption of maize production technologies in the coastal lowlands of Kenya
(CIMMYT, 2003)
Maize is the major food crop grown in the coastal region of Kenya and constitutes a major component of the diet of the population in the region. However, average yields are far below the potential for the region and low ...
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Linking global and local approaches to agricultural technology development: the role of participatory plant breeding research in the CGIAR
(CIMMYT, 2002)
This paper describes the current state of international plant breeding research and explains why centralized approach to germplasm improvement, so successful in the past, is being transformed by decentralized local breeding ...
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Impact of Mexican germplasm on Brazilian wheat cropping: an ex-post economic analysis
(CIMMYT, 2002)
This paper reviews and analyzes economic returns to wheat research in Brazil's main wheat-producing regions in Rio Grande do SuI and Paranci. Between 1975 and 1991, the area planted to wheat in Brazil increased significantly ...
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Wheat farmers' seed management and varietal adoption in Kenya
(Egerton University; KARI; CIMMYT, 2002)
Wheat is the second most important crop in Kenya after maize and is becoming an important source of food both for humans and livestock. Despite increasing wheat production, only 50% of domestic consumption requirements are ...
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Wheat supply in Kenya: production technologies, sources of inefficiency, and potential for productivity growth
(CIMMYT, 1993)
Kenya is projected to remain a net importer of wheat to the end of this century. To reduce the growing dependence on imports, the government has proposed measures to stimulate domestic production and curb wheat consumption. ...