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Sources of productivity growth in wheat: A review of recent performance and medium-to long-term prospects
(CIMMYT, 1999)
Sources of yield growth in wheat are investigated based on a stylized framework of technical change. Evidence suggests that the relative contribution of input intensification to yield growth has diminished in recent years ...
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Farmer management of maize diversity in the Central Valleys of Oaxaca, Mexico: CIMMYT INIFAP -- 1998 Baseline Socioeconomic Survey
(CIMMYT, 1999)
Descriptive data from the sample survey of households in the study communities enable us to profile the characteristics of: (1) farm households; (2) the maize populations they grow, based on their own descriptors and the ...
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Genetic diversity and maize seed management in a traditional Mexican community: implications for in situ conservation of maize
(CIMMYT, 1996)
Results from a study of maize varieties and seed sources in a traditional community in Mexico raise questions about the relevance of models for in situ conservation of crop genetic resources that are based on geographical ...
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Farmers' use of improved seed selection practices in Mexican maize: evidence and issues from the Sierra de Santa Marta
(CIMMYT, 1997)
The principal advantage of in situ conservation is that it allows adaptive evolutionary processes to continue in the species that are being conserved. For a cultivated crop species, in situ conservation involves farmers' ...