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Gender and innovation processes in wheat-based systems
(GENNOVATE; CIMMYT, 2017)
For more than half a century, wheat research for development has delivered highly valuable technologies. Some of these have had very large impacts, significantly improving productivity, food security and incomes. However, ...
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Gender and innovation processes in Maize-Based Systems
(CIMMYT, 2017)
For several decades maize research for development has delivered valuable improved technologies to poor farmers. Some of these innovations significantly enhanced productivity, food security, and incomes, while others have ...
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Gender norms, agency, and innovation in agriculture and natural resource management: the GENNOVATE methodology
(CIMMYT, 2018)
Innovation in agriculture and natural resource management (NRM) that ignores gender inequality is limited in its impact and risks worsening the poverty, workload, and wellbeing of poor rural women and their families. Due ...
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Introduction to basic GIS and spatial analysis using QGIS: applications in Bangladesh
(CSISA; CIMMYT, 2018)
This book provides a set of learning modules introducing young scientists and researchers to Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and spatial analysis using the open-source QGIS platform, and complementary R, SAGA and GRASS ...
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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 ...
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Land-use change, nutrition, and gender roles in Indonesian farm households
(University of Goettingen, 2019)
Many tropical countries are experiencing massive land-use change with profound environmental and socioeconomic implications. In Indonesia, oil palm cultivation is rapidly expanding at the expense of more traditional ...
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Land-use change and livelihoods of non-farm households: the role of income from employment in oil palm and rubber in rural Indonesia
(University of Goettingen, 2018)
Many tropical regions are experiencing massive land-use change that is often characterized by an expansion of oil palm at the expense of forests and more traditional forms of agricultural cropping. While implications of ...
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Ethiopia’s Productive Safety Net Program (PSNP): soil carbon and fertility impact assessment
(Cornell University, 2016)
Ethiopia’s climate smart initiative (CSI) aims to integrate the implications of climate change into Productive Safety Net Programs (PSNP) activities, and systems to strengthen this important social safety net program, and ...
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Crop-livestock interactions in smallholder farming systems and their implications for the adoption of Conservation Agriculture in Kenya
(KALRO; CIMMYT, 2015)
This study was conducted as part of the project titled: ‘Enhancing Total Farm Productivity in Smallholder Conservation Agriculture-Based Systems in Eastern Africa’. Its purpose is to inform agronomists and other project ...
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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 ...