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Linear selection indices in modern plant breeding
(Springer, 2018)
Genetic improvement programs of plants and livestock are aimed at maximizing the rate of increase of some merit function (e.g., economic value of a wheat line) that is expected to have a genetic basis. Typically, candidates ...
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Maize for Colombia 2030 Vision
(CIMMYT; CIAT, 2019)
In Colombia, maize is the third crop with the largest cultivation area after coffee and rice. In spite of this, it is the country with the highest volume of imports in South America, and the seventh in the world. Maize is ...
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Labor savings in agriculture and inequality at different spatial scales: the expansion of oil palm in Indonesia
(University of Goettingen, 2019)
Labor saving innovations are essential to increase agricultural productivity, but they might also increase inequality through displacing labor. Empirical evidence on such labor displacements is limited. This study uses ...
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Land-use change, nutrition, and gender roles in Indonesian farm households
(University of Goettingen, 2019)
Many tropical countries are experiencing massive land-use change with profound environmental and socioeconomic implications. In Indonesia, oil palm cultivation is rapidly expanding at the expense of more traditional ...
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Land-use change and livelihoods of non-farm households: the role of income from employment in oil palm and rubber in rural Indonesia
(University of Goettingen, 2018)
Many tropical regions are experiencing massive land-use change that is often characterized by an expansion of oil palm at the expense of forests and more traditional forms of agricultural cropping. While implications of ...
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Resource book: Earth observation and climate data analysis for agricultural drought monitoring in South Asia
(South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC) Agriculture Centre (SAC), 2019)
Droughts are manifestations of climatic fluctuations associated with large-scale anomalies in the planetary circulation of the atmosphere. They imply the absence of, or weak precipitation, for an extended period over large ...
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The wheat and nutrition series: a compilation of studies on wheat and health
(CIMMYT, 2017)
Including papers about wheat and health published during 2014-17 by CIMMYT, in partnership with Bimbo, a Mexican multinational bakery product company and, with permission of AACC International, from a special series in ...
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Introduction to basic GIS and spatial analysis using QGIS: applications in Bangladesh
(CSISA; CIMMYT, 2018)
This book provides a set of learning modules introducing young scientists and researchers to Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and spatial analysis using the open-source QGIS platform, and complementary R, SAGA and GRASS ...
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LACC/IGW 4th ICC latin american cereals conference: book of abstracts
(CIMMYT, 2018)
For the first time, ICC and CIMMYT are collaborating for the LACC4 - 4th ICC Latin American Cereals Conference in combination with the IGW - 13th International Gluten Workshop so that cereal science and technology in Latin ...
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CIMMYT Wheat Molecular Genetics: laboratory protocols and applications to wheat breeding
(CIMMYT, 2016)
It is generally agreed that in order to meet future challenges in food production, multi-faceted breeding approaches are needed, including the use of current available genomics resources. Since more than three decades, ...