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Cereal crop productivity in developing countries: past trends and future prospects
(CIMMYT, 1999)
This paper synthesizes the evidence on cereal crop poductivity in developing countries over the past 30 years and looks at future prospects for productivity in growth. For more than three decades we have witnessed the ...
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Maize production and agricultural policies in Central America and Mexico
(CIMMYT, 1999)
This paper reviews trends in maize production and consumption in Central America and Mexico in the context of the political and economic changes taking place in the region since the 1970's. The authors focus on the effects ...
Working Paper
Adoption and use of improved maize by small-scale farmers in Southeast Guatemala
(CIMMYT, 1999)
This report is based on a study of the adoption and use of improved open-pollinated varieties and hybrids by small-scale farmers in the Department of Jutiapa, Guatemala. The majority of maize producers in Guatemala are ...
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Adoption of maize conservation tillage in Azuero, Panama
(CIMMYT, 1999)
An aggressive research and validation program launched in 1984 in Azuero, Panama, yielded a recommendation advocating zero tillage for maize production. Ten years later, maize farmers in Azuero use , land preparation ...
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A regional analysis of maize biological diversity in Southeastern Guanajuato, Mexico
(CIMMYT, 1998)
Four environments with contrasting potential for agricultural productivity and infrastructure development were identified in Guanajuato State, Mexico, to test hypotheses about the relationship of maize biological diversity ...
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Farmer plant breeding from a biological perspective: implications for collaborative plant breeding
(CIMMYT, 1999)
Plant breeding by research has become increasingly isolated from the plant breeding of farmers. Collaborative plant breeding (CPB) offers the possibility of bringing these two plant breeding traditions together to increase ...
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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 ...
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Using economics to explain spatial diversity in a wheat crop: examples from Australia and China
(CIMMYT, 1999)
Spatial diversity indicators may serve an important function for policymakers as they seek to manage crop genetic diversity and potential externalities associated with diffusion of some types of genetically improved crops. ...
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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 ...
Working Paper
Recommendation domains: a framework for on-farm research
(CIMMYT, 1984)
This paper provides a thorough examination of the concept of; the recommendation domain. It outlines the use of the concept in different stages of on-farm research, pro; vides examples of recommendation domains as used in ...