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Análisis de la productividad del maíz en el Estado de México
(Universidad Autónoma Chapingo, Coordinación de Revistas Institucionales, 2009)
El Estado de Mexico es uno de los productores mas importantes de maiz en Mexico pero no cubre el total de la demanda local; por lo que se realizo un analisis cuantitativo de su productividad, por lo cual se diseño y calibro ...
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Risks associated with dry soil planting time in Ethiopia
(International Network for Natural Sciences, 2015)
Dry soil planting is practiced in response to variable rainfall onset in Ethiopia to maximize use of the full season. Rainfall data of >30 years for seven locations were used to evaluate dry soil planting opportunities on ...
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Spatial analysis to support geographic targeting of genotypes to environments
(Frontiers, 2013)
Crop improvement efforts have benefited greatly from advances in available data, computing technology, and methods for targeting genotypes to environments. These advances support the analysis of genotype by environment ...
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Adapting maize production to climate change in sub-Saharan Africa
(Springer Verlag, 2013)
Given the accumulating evidence of climate change in sub-Saharan Africa, there is an urgent need to develop more climate resilient maize systems. Adaptation strategies to climate change in maize systems in sub-Saharan ...
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Gender, nutrition- and climate-smart food production: Opportunities and trade-offs
(Springer Verlag, 2013)
Future food and nutrition security is threatened by climate change, overexploitation of natural resources and pervasive social inequalities. Promising solutions are often technology-focused and not necessarily developed ...
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Re-orienting participatory plant breeding for wider impact
(Academic Journals, 2012)
This paper concerns the need to re-conceptualise participatory crop improvement in order to explore new ways of making the outcomes of scientific plant breeding and knowledge production more effective, accessible and ...
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Sheep market participation of rural households in Western Ethiopia
(Academic Journals, 2012)
Sheep production is an integral part of the subsistence crop-livestock based livelihoods of the Ethiopian highlands and plays a crucial role in economic development and poverty reduction. This study analyzed determinants ...
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Price co-integration analyses of food crop markets: The case of wheat and teff commodities in Northern Ethiopia
(Academic Journals, 2012)
This paper examines the role of market price information dissemination on the co-integration of grain market prices in Northern Ethiopia. Results are based on bi-monthly retail price data on wheat and teff commodities ...
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Agricultural technology adoption, commercialization and smallholder rice farmers’ welfare in rural Nigeria
(SpringerOpen; Springer Verlag; Società Italiana di Economia Agraria, 2016)
This study assessed the determinants of intensity of adoption of Improved Rice Varieties (IRVs) and the effect of market participation on farmers’ welfare in Nigeria using the Tobit and Heckman two-stage models, respectively. ...
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Quantifying the impact of weather extremes on global food security: A spatial bio-economic approach
(Elsevier, 2014)
This study uses a spatial bio-economic modelling framework to estimate the impact of the 2012 weather extreme in the USA on food security in the developing world. The study also quantifies the potential effects of a similar ...