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Rural Mexico 10 years after the North American free trade agreement: coping with a landscape of changeEl México rural 10 años después de la firma del tratado de libre comercio de América del Norte: enfrentar un panorama de cambio
(CIMMYT, 2004)
On the first day of 1994, Mexican agriculture and farmers' lives were slated to change. That was the day that the North American free trade agreement (NAFTA) came into effect. Signed by the governments of Canada, Mexico, ...
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Conservation agriculture and soil carbon sequestration: between myth and farmer reality
(CIMMYT, 2009)
Human efforts to produce ever-greater amounts of food leave their mark on the environment. Persistent use of conventional farming practices based on extensive tillage, especially when combined with removal or in situ burning ...
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Identifying appropriate germplasm for participatory breeding: an example from the central Valleys of Oaxaca, Mexico
(CIMMYT, 2000)
Identifying the appropriate germplasm to be improved is a key component of any participatory breeding effort because of its implications for impacts on social welfare and genetic diversity. This paper describes a method ...
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Policy reforms and mexican agriculture: views from the Yaqui Valley
(CIMMYT, 2001)
The overall effects of policy reforms enacted during the 1990s in Mexico on financial and economic profitability ofYaqui Valley agriculture are assessed in this study, which describes the reforms, examines how exogenous ...
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Economic and livelihood impacts of maize research in hill regions in Mexico and Nepal: including a method for collecting and analyzing spatial data using Google Earth
(CIMMYT, 2008)
To fully assess the impact of new technologies on farmers we need to shift the focus of research from ‘crops’ or ‘commodities’ to the impact pathway which links improved crop germplasm and management to household well-being. ...
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The impact of conservation tillage on the productivity and stability of maize cropping systems: a case study in Western Mexico
(CIMMYT, 2001)
This paper examines the economics of introducing conservation tillage into existing maize cropping systems in the state of Jalisco, in the western part of Mexico. A stochastic cost-benefit analysis (SCBA) of introducing ...
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Sustainable improvement of agricultural production systems in the mixteca region of Mexico
(CIMMYT, 2002)
With support from the Conrad N. Hilton and Ford Foundations and in collaboration with three Mexican non-governmental organizations, the CIMMYT Natural Resources Group (NRG) worked with small-scale farmers in the impoverished, ...
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Social relations and seed transactions among smallscale maize farmers in the Central Valleys of Oaxaca, Mexico
(CIMMYT, 2002)
This paper explores social arrangements associated with seed transactions among smallscale maize farmers in the Central Valleys of Oaxaca, Mexico, a centre of crop genetic diversity. A formal seed distribution system has ...
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Calidad de la cosecha de trigo en México: ciclo primavera-verano 2006
(CONASIST; CONATRIGO, 2008)
Después del maíz y el frijol, el trigo es una de las tres fuentes mas importantes de nutrientes de bajo costa en la dieta del mexicano, sobre todo para las poblaciones rurales y urbanas de escasos recursos. Además, tanto ...
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Diez años con el TLCAN: revisión de literatura y análisis de las respuestas de los agricultores de Sonora y Veracruz, México
(Congressional Hunger Center; CIMMYT, 2007)
Este estudio contiene una revisión de la literatura reciente sobre el impacto que ha tenido el Tratado de Libre Comercio de América del Norte (TLCAN), que entró en vigor en 1994, en la producción de trigo y maíz en México. ...