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Report
Ten years with NAFTA: a review of the literature and an analysis of farmer responses in Sonora and Veracruz, Mexico
(Congressional Hunger Center; CIMMYT, 2006)
This report reviews recent literature regarding impacts of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA, launched in 1994) on maize and wheat farming in Mexico. A basic overview of maize and wheat production in Mexico ...
Book
CIMMYT's formal training activities: perceptions of impact from former trainees, NARS research leaders, and CIMMYT scientists
(CIMMYT, 2006)
This report provides information on the impact of CIMMYT training, based on a set of background interviews with center staff, reviews of relevant data and documents provided by CIMMYT, and two surveys: one of research ...
Book
The Asian maize biotechnology network (AMBIONET): a model for strengthening national agricultural research systems
(CIMMYT, 2006)
This report reviews the impacts of the Asian Maize Biotechnology Network (AMBIONET), organized by the International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT) with funding from the Asian Development Bank to strengthen the ...
Book
Livelihoods, poverty and targeting in the Indo-Gangetic Plains: a spatial mapping approach
(CIMMYT, 2007)
This study develops a spatial mapping methodology as a tool to guide priority-setting and targeting of poverty-alleviation activities. It applies this tool to the Indo-Gangetic Plains of South Asia, the target domain of ...
Book
Analysis of participatory research projects in the International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center
(CIMMYT, 2006)
Through a survey of scientists from the International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT) in 2004, this study assessed the extent to which participatory methods had been used by the center, how they were perceived ...
Book
Impacts of international research on intertemporal yield stability in wheat and maize: an economic assessment
(CIMMYT, 2006)
Critics of modern maize and wheat varieties (MVs) have suggested that, in developing countries, yields of these varieties vary more from season to season than yields of farmers’ traditional varieties, thereby exposing ...
Book
Assessment of the effectiveness of maize seed assistance to vulnerable farm households in Zimbabwe
(CIMMYT, 2007)
The publication describes outcomes of a study to assess the effectiveness of a large-scale crop seed relief effort in Zimbabwe during 2003-07. Aims of the effort, which was supported by the British Department for International ...
Conference Proceedings
Conference Proceedings
Why has impact assessment research not made more of a difference?
(CIMMYT, 2003)
This documet-contains the proceedings of an international conference on impact assessment research held in San Jose, Costa Rica, from 4-7 February 2002. Co-organized by the Economics Program of the International Maize and ...
Conference Proceedings
Modeling temperature response in wheat and maize
(CIMMYT, 2003)
During the workshop “Modeling Temperature Response in Wheat and Maize,” held from 23 to 25 April 2001 at CIMMYT’s headquarters at El Batan, Mexico, participants examined various approaches for modeling temperature effects ...