These proceedings summarize the outcomes of the Inception Workshop of ACIAR Project SMCN/2005/001, entitled "Addressing constraints to pulses in cereals-based cropping systems, with particular reference to poverty alleviation ...

Maize is a major food for millions of the poor in Africa and Latin America. During the last few decades, CIMMYT scientists have developed a "quality protein maize" (QPM) that looks and tastes like normal maize, yields as ...

The Asian Maize Biotechnology Network (AMBIONET) is a collaborative research and training network established in April 1998 that is aimed at building the biotechnology capacity of national maize programs in Asia. The focus ...

This publication addresses some of the problems of maize improvement in the tropics and stresses that many can be solved through approaches involving the development and maintenance of broad-based gene pools and populations. ...

This booklet is intended to aid researchers in meeting one of the critical challenges facing national maize programs in developing countries--which is to develop effective seed production systems for more rapid dissemination ...

The growth in high-value agriculture world-wide is driven partly by rising incomes, urbanization, and perhaps changing preferences. As income rises, the share of the food budget allocated to starchy staples declines relative ...

The Insect Resistant Maize for Africa (IRMA) Project was publicly launched on March 3 2000 with the convening of a Stakeholders Meeting in Nairobi, Kenya. About seventy six people, representing different stakeholder groups ...

It is a great pleasure to publish this booklet on the occasion of NARC-CIMMYT Day to mark Three Decades of NARC-CIMMYT Partnership in Maize/Wheat Research and Development. Both maize and wheat are priority cereal crops for ...