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Liming of smallholder soils in Zimbabwe
(CIMMYT, 2000)
Most of the soils in smallholders areas of Zimbabwe are acidic. This is one of the main reasons that crops grow poorly. Lime is a low cost amendment which makes soils less acidic. Lime has been widely used by commercial ...
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Mucuna (Kalongonda): the best legume for soil fertility in Malawi
(CIMMYT, 2000)
Mucuna pruriens (velvet bean or kalongonda) is a legume, which gets most of its nitrogen (N) from the air and adds N to the soil from the leaves and stems that fail during the season. The more N added to the soil, the ...
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Innovation for food and nutritional security
(CIMMYT, 2014)
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Going to scale: How do Conservation Agriculture practices spread among farmers in Kenya?
(CIMMYT; KALRO; ACIAR, 2016)
Demonstration sites will continue to be centers of experimentation and learning for farmers. The results presented in this brief, demonstrates the efficacy of the demonstration approach to agriculture extension. It is ...
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Feasibility study of Climate-Smart Agriculture for rural communities in Southern Africa: the approach
(CIMMYT, 2019)
"A Climate-Smart Agriculture (CSA) innovation is a technology or practice that increases farm productivity and profitability; helps farmers cope with negative efects of climate change and build resilience; and mitigate ...
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Can we scale out Climate-Smart Agriculture?
(CIMMYT, 2019)
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Hub nodo de innovación tecnológica: Trabajo en equipo, la clave para el desarrollo del campo
(CIMMYT, 2010)
La investigación sobre sistemas agrícolas sustentables no es suficiente para cambiar completamente el panorama. Es importante que todas las personas involucradas en el proceso productivo del campo unan esfuerzos para ...
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Analisis de redes de innovacion
(CIMMYT; UACH, 2016)
Una red de innovación es un conjunto de actores y sus relaciones, ubicados en un territorio, que colaboran para el beneficio individual y colectivo a través de la innovación.
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IRD CIMMYT: the apomixis project -- a revolution in seed technology sows new hope in farmers' fields
(IRD; CIMMYT, 1998)
Poor and subsistence farmers, lacking hybrid and improved maize varieties, struggle daily to eke out an existence from low yielding plants that offer little resistance to destructive insects and diseases. In many of the ...