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Working Paper
Comparative advantage and policy incentives for wheat production in Zimbabwe
(CIMMYT, 1988)
Zimbabwe is unusual among SADCC countries in producing most of its own wheat. Between 1965 and 1975, rapid growth in wheat production transformed the nation from a net wheat importer to a net exporter. Although wheat ...
Working Paper
Demonstration of an interdisciplinary approach to planning adaptive agricultural research programmes in the Serenje District, Central Province, Zambia 1978
(CIMMYT, 1981)
In cooperation with researchers in many national agricultural research programs, CIMMYT has sought to develop procedures with help to focus agricultural research squarely on the needs of farmers. The process invo1ves ...
Report
Report of a seminar for senior agricultural research administrators from Eastern and Southern Africa
(CIMMYT, 1983)
Dr. Don Winkelmann welcomed participants to Nairobi and outlined briefly the purpose of the meeting; to exchange views on the potential and present status of On Farm Research with a Farming Systems Perspective (OFR/FSP) ...
Report
Report of a review of on-farm research in Swaziland: 1982-1988
(CIMMYT, 1988)
The critical constraints to increasing the incomes of Swazi Nation Land farmers has been the lack of research recommendations relevant to their farming context. It was necessary that researchers be reoriented to produce ...
Report
Report of an ARPT/CIMMYT networkshops on the role of rural sociology and anthropology in farming systems research and extension
(CIMMYT Eastern and Southern Africa Economics Programme, 1985)
This report summarises the proceedings of the ARPT/CIMMYT networkshop on "The Role of Rural Sociology (and Anthropology) in Farming Systems Research". The Workshop was held at the Ridgeway Hotel, Lusaka, Zambia from the ...
Research Report
On-farm research and extension linkages: experience from Zambia's Eastern province, 1982/88
(CIMMYT, 1989)
After half a dozen years of field implementation, on-farm research programmes in southern Africa have developed research results which are now being passed onto extension for dissemination to farmers. Given the system, ...
Article
Potential technology and research needs for rainfed maize production in drought prone environments of Southern Africa
(CIMMYT, 1989)
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 ...
Article
Targeting recommendations for small farmers: the role of economic factors in Zimbabwe and Swaziland
(CIMMYT, 1989)
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 ...
Conference Proceedings
Towards self sufficiency
(CIMMYT, 1988)
This workshop aims to create a better awareness among maize researchers of their mutual problems and approaches to solving them, as well as to strengthen regional cooperation.