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Potential benefits of drought and heat tolerance for adapting maize to climate change in tropical environments
(Elsevier, 2018)
Climate change and population growth pose great challenges to the food security of the millions of people who grow maize in the already fragile agricultural systems in tropical environments. There is an urgent need for ...
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Identifying loci with breeding potential across temperate and tropical adaptation via EigenGWAS and EnvGWAS
(Wiley, 2019)
Understanding the genomic basis of adaptation in maize is important for gene discovery and the improvement of breeding germplasm, but much remains a mystery in spite of significant population genetics and archaeological ...
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Fit for purpose? A review of guides for gender-equitable value chain development
(Taylor & Francis, 2018)
This article presents a review of seven guides for gender-equitable value chain development (VCD). The guides advocate persuasively the integration of gender into VCD programming and raise important issues for designing ...
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Las variedades criollas del maíz, los mercados especializados y las estrategias de vida de los productores
(Asociación Ecología,Tecnología y Cultura en los Andes, 2013)
En Mexico, no obstante la gran inversion y los muchos años de influencia del mejoramiento formal e introduccion masiva de variedades mejoradas de maiz, los agricultores de pequeña escala siguen cultivando las variedades ...
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Seeding Eastern Africa’s maize revolution in the post-structural adjustment era: a review and comparative analysis of the formal maize seed sector
(Wageningen Academic Publishers, 2018)
Improved maize seed is instrumental to deliver an Asian-style ‘green revolution’ for Africa. The paper reviews and makes a comparative analysis of the maize (corn) seed sector and its evolution in Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda ...
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Sample size under inverse negative binomial group testing for accuracy in parameter estimation
(Public Library of Science, 2012)
Background. The group testing method has been proposed for the detection and estimation of genetically modified plants (adventitious presence of unwanted transgenic plants, AP). For binary response variables (presence or ...
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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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Sheep market participation of rural households in Western Ethiopia
(Academic Journals, 2012)
Sheep production is an integral part of the subsistence crop-livestock based livelihoods of the Ethiopian highlands and plays a crucial role in economic development and poverty reduction. This study analyzed determinants ...
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Price co-integration analyses of food crop markets: The case of wheat and teff commodities in Northern Ethiopia
(Academic Journals, 2012)
This paper examines the role of market price information dissemination on the co-integration of grain market prices in Northern Ethiopia. Results are based on bi-monthly retail price data on wheat and teff commodities ...
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Improving agricultural knowledge management: The AgTrials experience [version 1; referees: 2 approved]
(F1000 Research, 2017)
Background: Opportunities to use data and information to address challenges in international agricultural research and development are expanding rapidly. The use of agricultural trial and evaluation data has enormous ...