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Lead farmers: enhancing agricultural resilience and sustainability in Eastern and Southern Africa
(CIMMYT, 2019)
In the following pages you will read inspiring and moving accounts by men and women farmers across eastern and southern Africa who have bravely embraced change to improve their farming methods and hence the lives and ...
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Potential impact of investments in drought tolerant maize in Africa
(CIMMYT, 2010)
The study evaluates the potential impacts of the Drought Tolerant Maize for Africa (DTMA) project run by CIMMYT and the International Institute for Tropical Agriculture (IITA) in 13 countries of eastern, southern and West ...
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El potencial de mercado de semillas mejoradas de maíz en México
(CIMMYT, 2012)
El desarrollo de un sector semillero orientado a satisfacer las necesidades de los productores de temporal en México es una oportunidad para aumentar el uso de semillas mejoradas y la productividad y rentabilidad de los ...
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Familias milperas de la península de Yucatán
(CIMMYT, 2018)
Esta publicación se enmarca dentro de las acciones de inclusión social que la Estrategia de Intensificación Sustentable del Centro Internacional de Mejoramiento de Maíz y Trigo (CIMMYT) lleva a cabo en México. Es un esfuerzo ...
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Administración de empresas productoras de semilla en África
(CIMMYT, 2014)
Las empresas productoras de semillas representan una forma empresarial que está emergiendo de manera vertiginosa en África. El sector de semillas africano ha visto el surgimiento y, en ocasiones, la desaparición, tanto a ...
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Characterizing the cereal systems and identifying the potential of conservation agriculture in South Asia
(CIMMYT, 2012)
Conservation agriculture (CA) and related resource conserving technologies (RCTs) potentially offer a way to sustainably increase the agricultural productivity in developing countries. These practices, which involve minimal ...
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Biophysical and socio-economic characterization of cereal production systems of Central Nepal
(CIMMYT, 2013)
The domestic food security of Nepal is critically depended on the sustainability of the cereal production systems of Central Nepal Terai region, as the major share of nation's cereal production comes from the agro-ecological ...
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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 ...
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Agricultural information networks, information needs and risk management strategies: a survey of farmers in Indo-Gangetic Plains of India
(CIMMYT, 2013)
Access to reliable, timely and relevant information can help significantly and in many ways to reduce farmers’ risk and uncertainty, empowering them to make good decisions. However, whether or not this access leads to ...
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Labor savings in agriculture and inequality at different spatial scales: the expansion of oil palm in Indonesia
(University of Goettingen, 2019)
Labor saving innovations are essential to increase agricultural productivity, but they might also increase inequality through displacing labor. Empirical evidence on such labor displacements is limited. This study uses ...