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What the world eats: maize
(CGIAR; IITA; CIMMYT, [2011?])
Recurrent food price crises—combined with the global financial meltdown, volatile energy prices, natural resource depletion, and climate change—threaten the livelihoods of millions of poor people. Together with rice and ...
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Highlights of 2010: drought-tolerant maize for Africa: better food security and livelihoods
(CIMMYT, 2010)
The Drought Tolerant Maize for Africa (DTMA) Project is jointly implemented by CIMMYT and the IITA, and is funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and the Howard G. Buffett Foundation. The project is part of a broad ...
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Quality Protein Maize (QPM): Nutritional wellbeing for the poor and vulnerable
(CIMMYT, 2016)
Quality protein maize (QPM) is a maize type based on genetic modification by the o2 mutant gene along with numerous modifiers that enhance kernel hardness and the tryptophan and lysine content of the endosperm and kernel ...
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SIMLESA Bulletin
(CIMMYT; ACIAR, Dec-15)
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SIMLESA Bulletin: highlights
(CIMMYT; ACIAR, 2014)
An intense SIMLESA-Kenya annual review and planning meeting at the facilities of the Kenya Agricultural Research Institute (KARI) during 4-6 November 2013 focused on strategies for “scalingout” – that is, broadening the ...
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Striga weed control with herbicide-coated maize seed
(CIMMYT, 2002)
The witchweed Striga decimates maize, millet, sorghum, upland rice and Napier throughout sub-Sahara Africa. From the high plateau of East Africa where peasant farmers struggle to survive on tiny fields of maize, to the ...
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The quality protein maize revolution: improved nutrition and livelihoods for the poor
(CIMMYT; NIPPON FUNDATION, 2001)
Maize is a major food for millions of the poor in Africa and Latin America. The poorest often eat little else. Their diets lack proteins and other important nutrients, impairing health and development. During the last few ...
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The DTMA project platform: october-december 2009
(ITTA; CIMMYT, 2009)
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CIMMYT Tlatizapán
(CIMMYT, 2001)
Tlaltizapan is the name of a small town located in the center of the Mexican state of Morelos. "Tlaltizapán" is a name in the Nahuatl language (ancient Aztecs' language) that means "over white land" ("tlalli"=land, " ...
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Choosing the right open-pollinated maize variety
(CIMMYT, 2003)
Maize is grown throughout the SADC region. However growing conditions differ for rainfall, temperature, growing season length and the occurrence of diseases and pests. As a consequence, different maize varieties are ...