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Issues regarding targeting and adoption of quality protein maize (QPM)
(CIMMYT, 2000)
Improvements in the production characteristics of quality protein maize (QPM) are currently leading to its reintroduction in various areas of the world, both for human and animal consumption. Although the improved QPM ...
Book
Agriculture in the 21st century
(CIMMYT, 2000)
This lecture reviews prospects for meeting the three major challenges confronting agriculture at the start of the 21st century: the food supply challenge, the need for agriculture to play a central role in reducing poverty; ...
Brochure
Invest in CIMMYT-invest in the future
(CIMMYT, 2000)
Our work demands creative scientific insight into an uncertain future. We know that the research we conduct today, if conducted with foresight and a concern for equility, will improve economic and environmentalconditions ...
Book
International wheat breeding research in Eastern and Southern Africa, 1966-97
(CIMMYT, 2000)
This paper describes and analyzes some of the impacts of wheat improvement research in seven countries in the Eastern and Southern regions of Africa. the countries South Africa, Ethiopia, Sudan, Kenya, Zimbabwe, Tanzania, ...
Newsletter / Bulletin
The risk management project: improving options for resource poor farmers in drought prone areas of southern Africa
(CIMMYT, 2000)
The goal of the CIMMYT-AusAID-ACIAR Risk Management Project is to increase the productivity and sustainability of smallholder maize-based farming systems in southern Africa by speeding the adoption of productivity-enhancing, ...
Newsletter / Bulletin
The development and dissemination of quality protein maize (QPM) for China: improving nutrition, enhancing food security, and reducing poverty
(CIMMYT, 2000)
Maize is grown on some 24 million hectares in China, producing 115 million tons of grain annually. China will require 204 million tons of maize by 2020, mostly for animal feed. It will have to import approximately 18 million ...
Research Report
Insect Resistant Maize for Africa (IRMA): strategic plan january 2000
(KARI; CIMMYT, 2000)
The Insect Resistant Maize for Africa (IRMA) Project is a joint project between the International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT) and the Kenya Agricultural Research Institute (KARl), with financial support ...