In southern Africa, semi-arid areas (here simply defined as areas with less than 700 mm but more than 350 mm of rainfall per annum) can be found from around 100 m to over 1,400 m above sea level. The semi-arid areas most ...

Natural conditions and major resource differences such as farm size are commonly used in on-farm research to define homogeneous 'recommendation domains' within which new technologies are tested. Successful trial results ...

This study presents in detail the themes explored in the CIMMYT publication, World Wheat Facts and Trends, Report 2 (1983). It looks at changes in wheat consumption in developing countries, examines the increasing importance ...

The world wheat economy has dramatically changed over the last three decades. In the period immediately following World War II, wheat trade was dominated by the developed market economics. The USA, Canada and Australia ...

The personal fortunes of Kwaku Yamoah-Boampong, like the collective fortunes of his native Ghana, have been fickle to say the least-and the two appear to be intertwined. During the late 1970s, he tried to disentangle one ...

Le present numero de la revue LE CIMMYT AUJOURD'HUI etudie les efforts que font nos economistes pour aider leurs collaborateurs nationaux a mettre au point et transferer de meilleures techniques de culture du mais, du ble, ...

This issue of CIMMYT TODAY explores the efforts of our economists to assist national collaborators to develop and transfer improved technology for maize, wheat, barley and triticale in the developing world.

Training is a major activity at CIMMYT. The principal objective of the Center's various training programs is to increase the professional expertise of agricultural research personnel in developing countries. After completing ...

This manual presents a set of procedures for the economic analysis of on-farm experiments. It is intended for use by agricultural scientists as they develop recommendations for farmers from agronomic data. Developing ...

This publication is the initial effort to summarize selected meteorological data recorded at the four research stations of the International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT) between 1973 and 1982. These four ...