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Going to scale: How do Conservation Agriculture practices spread among farmers in Kenya?
(CIMMYT; KALRO; ACIAR, 2016)
Demonstration sites will continue to be centers of experimentation and learning for farmers. The results presented in this brief, demonstrates the efficacy of the demonstration approach to agriculture extension. It is ...
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The CIMMYT Economics Program
(CIMMYT, 1996)
CIMMYT economists ask and answer fundamental questions about CIMMYT’s maize and wheat research: Do our research products help people? How do they help them? Can we design research products that are better at meeting farmers’ ...
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Liming of smallholder soils in Zimbabwe
(CIMMYT, 2000)
Most of the soils in smallholders areas of Zimbabwe are acidic. This is one of the main reasons that crops grow poorly. Lime is a low cost amendment which makes soils less acidic. Lime has been widely used by commercial ...
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Mucuna (Kalongonda): the best legume for soil fertility in Malawi
(CIMMYT, 2000)
Mucuna pruriens (velvet bean or kalongonda) is a legume, which gets most of its nitrogen (N) from the air and adds N to the soil from the leaves and stems that fail during the season. The more N added to the soil, the ...
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A sampling of CIMMYT impacts, 1999: new global and regional studies
(CIMMYT, 1999)
CIMMYT and its partners engage in one of the world’s most ambitious humanitarian endeavors: together, we form a global wheat and maize improvement system that seeks to better the lives of millions of poor farmers and ...
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Seeds of innovation: CIMMYT's strategy for helping to reduce poverty and hunger by 2020
(CIMMYT, 2003)
The strategic choices made by CIMMYT and its partners will improve their capacity to contribute to the UN Millennium Development Goals of halving poverty and hunger through maize and wheat research. Their strategic choices ...
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IRD CIMMYT: the apomixis project -- a revolution in seed technology sows new hope in farmers' fields
(IRD; CIMMYT, 1998)
Poor and subsistence farmers, lacking hybrid and improved maize varieties, struggle daily to eke out an existence from low yielding plants that offer little resistance to destructive insects and diseases. In many of the ...
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Hub nodo de innovación tecnológica: Trabajo en equipo, la clave para el desarrollo del campo
(CIMMYT, 2010)
La investigación sobre sistemas agrícolas sustentables no es suficiente para cambiar completamente el panorama. Es importante que todas las personas involucradas en el proceso productivo del campo unan esfuerzos para ...
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Semillas de innovación: la estrategia del CIMMYT para ayudar a reducir la pobreza y el hambre para el 2020
(CIMMYT, 2003)
Las decisiones estratégicas tomadas por el CIMMYT y sus colaboradores aumentarán su capacidad de contribuir a alcanzar por medio de la investigación de maíz y trigo, los Objetivos de Desarrollo del Milenio de la ONU que ...
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Innovation for food and nutritional security
(CIMMYT, 2014)