For more than a decade, Zaire's maize production has not increased fast enough to supply rapidly increasing domestic demand. The result has been a sharp increase in maize imports, and this in turn has pinched already limited ...

The year 1976 marks the end of CI MMYT's first decade and the start of the second. Such a milestone justifies a look backward at what has happened to CI MMYT and its collaborators, and a look forward at the foreseeable ...

El año de 1976 marcó el final de la primera década del CIMMYT y el principio de la segunda. Tal efemérides justifica un vistazo retrospectivo hacia lo que ha ocurrido con el CIMMYT y sus colaboradores, y un vistazo hacia ...

The study described in the following chapters is one of series aimed at enlarging understanding of the factors impinging on the adoption of new maize and wheat technology. Better understanding of the elements shaping the ...

Recent dramatic increases and shifts in Zaire's population have had significant influences upon both the supply and the demand for basic foods, with profound effects being registered on maize in urban Shaba and in the Kasai ...

It is gradually being accepted that women in Pakistan make a direct contribution in the farming sector. The extent and nature of their contribution, however, is not fully known to development planners. In the past, very ...

Intensive triticale breeding at CIMMYT during the past decade has brought this "man-made" crop to the brink of commercial cultivation by farmers in the tropics and subtropics.

El caso del trigo en la Región Andina ilustra el efecto que las políticas gubernamentales ocasionan en la producción y mercado del trigo. La cantidad de trigo producida y consumida en Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador y Perú, en ...

Las variedades multilineales -mezclas de líneas geneticamente relacionadas que portan diferentes genes de resistencia a las enfermedades- ofrecen a las agricultores una alternativa para domeñar el surgimiento de epifitias ...

Multiline varieties-mixtures of genetically related lines that have different genes for disease resistance-offer farmers a way to tame outbreaks of rust, thus stabilizing annual wheat yields. CIMMYT is producing large ...