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Report
1995/96 World wheat facts and trends: understanding global trends in the use of wheat diversity and international flows of wheat genetic resources
(CIMMYT, 1996)
This document describes wheat's origins and the flows of germplasm between various regions of the world. It summarizes some of the tools biological and social scientists use to measure genetic diversity. It examines patterns ...
Conference Proceedings
Insect resistant maize for Africa (IRMA) project
(KARI; CIMMYT, 2000)
The Insect Resistant Maize for Africa (IRMA) Project was publicly launched on March 3 2000 with the convening of a Stakeholders Meeting in Nairobi, Kenya. About seventy six people, representing different stakeholder groups ...
Conference Proceedings
Insect resistant maize for Africa (IRMA) project: creating awareness on biotechnology based technologies: report on a workshop
(KARI; CIMMYT, 2001)
The Insect Resistant Maize for Africa. (IRMA) Project is a joint venture between the International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT) and the Kenya Agricultural Research Institute (KARI), with financial support ...
Serial Publication
Research on soil fertility in Southern Africa: ten awkward questions
(CIMMYT, 1998)
By raising important, sometimes ignored questions about research on soil fertility management in the subsistence, risk-prone maize-based cropping systems of sub-Saharan Africa, this paper seeks to improve the quality of ...
Conference Proceedings
Acciones para impulsar la labranza de conservación en maíz el la Región de Azuero
(CIMMYT; IDIAP; PRM; Universidad de Panama, 1999)
La preocupación sobre la conservación de los recursos naturales en general, y del suelo yagua en particular, ha estimulado la búsquedas de nuevas formas de incrementar la adopción y difusión de tecnologías que contribuyan ...
Report
Demonstrations of an interdisciplinary approach to planning adaptive agricultural research programmes
(CIMMYT Eastern African Economics Programme, 1979)
Area based development programmes aimed at improving the incomes of small farmers are a major concern of governments in less developed countries. New technology is the foundation of these prograrmnes and the selection of ...
Report
Demonstrations of an interdisciplinary approach to planning adaptive agricultural research programmes
(CIMMYT, 1978)
The Ministry of Lands and Agriculture, Zambia, expressed interese in this approach to planning adaptive agricultural experimental programmes and cooperated with Cimmyt to demonstrate it in part of Serenje District. Chapter ...
Book
Farmers' taxonomies as a participatory diagnostic tool: soil fertility management in Chihota, Zimbabwe
(CIMMYT, 1999)
Soil infertility is a major constraint to food production in the communal areas of Zimbabwe. Smalholders in the region recognize the problems of low soil fertility and have devised ways of coping with them. This study ...
Book
Linking global and local approaches to agricultural technology development: the role of participatory plant breeding research in the CGIAR
(CIMMYT, 2002)
This paper describes the current state of international plant breeding research and explains why centralized approach to germplasm improvement, so successful in the past, is being transformed by decentralized local breeding ...
Report
Demonstrations of an interdisciplinary farming systems approach to planning adaptive agricultural research programmes
(CIMMYT, 1977)
The Research Division, Ministry of Agriculture, GOK and the Department of Economics, Egerton College cooperated with CIMMYT in the demonstration of an interdisciplinary farming system based approach to planning adaptive ...