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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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New frontiers in agricultural extension - volume 1
(CIMMYT, 2019)
India’s self-sufficiency in food is widely regarded as its greatest achievement since Independence. The green revolution has played a great supporting role in increasing the income of rural households (HHs) where farms are ...
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Gestão da Indústria de Sementes em África
(CIMMYT, 2014)
As empresas de sementes são uma forma emergente de empreendedorismo em grande crescimento em África. O setor das sementes em África assistiu ao surgimento e, por vezes, ao desaparecimento de empresas nacionais e internacionais ...
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Gender and innovation processes in wheat-based systems
(GENNOVATE; CIMMYT, 2017)
For more than half a century, wheat research for development has delivered highly valuable technologies. Some of these have had very large impacts, significantly improving productivity, food security and incomes. However, ...
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Gender and innovation processes in Maize-Based Systems
(CIMMYT, 2017)
For several decades maize research for development has delivered valuable improved technologies to poor farmers. Some of these innovations significantly enhanced productivity, food security, and incomes, while others have ...
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Anti-Wheat fad diets undermine global food security efforts: wheat consumption healthy despite claims in self-help publications
(CIMMYT, 2014)
A recent review paper released by Britain’s University of Warwick (Lillywhite and Sarrouy 2014) addresses two fundamental questions regarding wheat: “Are whole grain products good for health?”; and “What is behind the rise ...
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Quality Assurance/ Quality Control (QA/QC) in maize breeding and seed production: theory and practice
(CIMMYT, 2017)
This technical manual introduces the theory and practice of Quality Assurance/Quality Control (QA/QC) of seed quality in maize breeding and seed production. It focuses mainly on the genetic quality related issues of the ...
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Gender norms, agency, and innovation in agriculture and natural resource management: the GENNOVATE methodology
(CIMMYT, 2018)
Innovation in agriculture and natural resource management (NRM) that ignores gender inequality is limited in its impact and risks worsening the poverty, workload, and wellbeing of poor rural women and their families. Due ...
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