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Climate change impacts and potential benefits of heat-tolerant maize in South Asia
(Springer, 2017)
Monitoring of genetic gain in crop genetic improvement programs is necessary to measure the efficiency of the program. Periodic measurement of genetic gain also allows the efficiency of new technologies incorporated into ...
Report
Country Report – DT Maize Adoption Monitoring Survey- Zimbabwe. Socio-Economics Program Working Paper
(CIMMYT, 2014)
Maize is a very important crop in Zimbabwe both for food and income. Even though Zimbabwe is one of the countries with highest adoption rates of hybrid varieties, threats from climate change and other stresses have been ...
Report
Country Report – DT Maize Adoption Monitoring Survey- Angola. Socio-Economics Program Country report
(CIMMYT, 2014)
Angola has an economy heavily dominated by crude oil export. On the other hand agriculture, which is dominated by smallholder farming, directly contributes only 6-10% of Angola’s gross domestic product (GDP). However, it ...
Report
Country Report – DT Maize Adoption Monitoring Survey- Mozambique. Socio-Economics Program Country report
(CIMMYT, 2014)
The agricultural sector is the main driver for socio-economic development in Mozambique. It employs 80% of the working population and contributes 90% of Gross Domestic Product (GDP). Majority of the farmers are subsistence ...
Book
Framework, guidelines and governance for designing local adaptation plan of action to mainstream climate smart villages in India
(CIMMYT, 2016)
The major challenges being faced by Agriculture globally are degradation of natural resources and increasing frequency of climate change induced risks. In pre-green revolution period, the farmers practiced a more resilient ...
Newsletter / Bulletin
Pathways to sustainable intensification in Eastern and Southern Africa: looking forward, achieving impact
(CIMMYT, 2016)
Nearly a decade and a half into the 21st century, hunger and malnutrition are still harsh realities for more than one billion people around the world. In addition to this, the challenge of feeding a growing world population ...
Report
A diagnostic study of crop-livestock interactions: in the Rift Valley and the western mid-highland areas of Ethiopia / Alemu Tolemariam and Moti Jaleta
(CIMMYT, 2015)
This report analyzes crop-livestock interactions in maize-based, mixed farming systems in the Rift Valley and the western, mid-highland areas of Ethiopia. These areas are known for their maize-based crop-livestock farming ...
Book
Crop-livestock interactions in smallholder farming systems and their implications for the adoption of Conservation Agriculture in Kenya
(KALRO; CIMMYT, 2015)
This study was conducted as part of the project titled: ‘Enhancing Total Farm Productivity in Smallholder Conservation Agriculture-Based Systems in Eastern Africa’. Its purpose is to inform agronomists and other project ...
Book
Farmer access and differential impacts of zero tillage technology in the subsistence wheat farming systems of West Bengal, India
(CIMMYT, 2012)
The present study was carried out with the broad objective of assessing the patterns of adoption and farm profitability potentials of conservation agriculture (CA) in the three northern “disadvantaged districts” of West ...