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Linking agricultural research with the agribusiness community from a pro-poor perspective: the importance of human capital development
(Springer, 2012)
Improved crop varieties are a key output of agricultural research and have contributed to significant increases in agricultural production and productivity However, the benefits from advances in plant breeding have often ...
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Reduciendo la brecha entre la realidad de los investigadores y la de los agricultores
(Asociación Ecología,Tecnología y Cultura en los Andes, 2006)
La Revolución Verde y otros trabajos recientes sobre agricultura y desarrollo rural han llevado al incremento de la producción de una serie de cultivos en los países pobres, el maíz y el trigo entre ellos. Organizaciones ...
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Organizacion de los agricultores y acceso al mercado
(Asociación Ecología,Tecnología y Cultura en los Andes, 2007)
La organización ha sido identificada como un factor clave para mejorar el acceso de los agricultores a los mercados. Como respuesta a ello, los políticos y trabajadores del desarrollo se han concentrado en apoyar a los ...
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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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Estimating maize genetic erosion in modernized smallholder agriculture
(Springer, 2009)
Replacement of crop landraces by modern varieties is thought to cause diversity loss. We studied genetic erosion in maize within a model system; modernized smallholder agriculture in southern Mexico. The local seed supply ...
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Crops that feed the world 6. Past successes and future challenges to the role played by maize in global food security
(Springer Verlag, 2011)
Maize is one of the most important food crops in the world and, together with rice and wheat, provides at least 30% of the food calories to more than 4.5 billion people in 94 developing countries. In parts of Africa and ...