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Should energy be a product of 21st century agriculture in developing countries?
(CIMMYT, 2007)
Recent policies fostering use of alternative, renewable energy sources in the industrialized world confront developing countries with diverse opportunities and challenges: how to integrate with potential biofuel markets, ...
Book
Adoption and impacts of zero-tillage in the rice-wheat zone of irrigated Punjab, Pakistan
(RWC; CIMMYT, 2007)
This study documents the adoption and impacts of zero-tillage (ZT) wheat in the rice wheat systems of Pakistan’s Punjab province primarily drawing on a detailed empirical survey of 458 rice-wheat farmers. Our random ...
Book
Crop-Livestock Interactions and livelihoods in the indo-gangetic plains, India: a regional synthesis
(CIMMYT, 2007)
The research and development community faces the challenge of sustaining crop productivity gains, improving rural livelihoods, and securing environmental sustainability in the Indo-Gangetic Plains (IGP). This calls for a ...
Book
Adoption and impacts of zero tillage as a resource conserving technology in the irrigated plains of South Asia.
(IWMI, 2007)
The recent stagnation of productivity growth in the irrigated areas of the Indo-Gangetic Plains of South Asia has led to a quest for resourceconserving technologies that can save water, reduce production costs and improve ...
Book
Impact of zero tillage in India's rice-wheat systems
(CIMMYT, 2007)
To date, the most widely adopted resource conserving technology (RCT) in the Indo-Gangetic Plains (IGP) has been zero-tillage (ZT) for wheat after rice, particularly in India. This report reviews and synthesizes the ...
Book
Maize-rice cropping systems in Bangladesh: status and research opportunities
(CIMMYT, 2008)
Responding to demand from expanding poultry feed markets, maize area in Bangladesh rose from only a few thousand hectares in the 1980s to more than 200,000 hectares in 2007-08. This publication describes the rise of maize ...
Report
CIMMYT 1999/2000 World maize facts and trends. meeting world maize needs: technological opportunities and priorities for the public sector
(CIMMYT, 2001)
This report has four parts. Part 1 focuses on the role intemational agricultural research institutions should play in meeting the rapid growth in maize demand that is anticipated during the next 20 years. Constraints to ...
Book
Análisis del sistema mexicano de investigación agropecuaria
(CIMMYT, 2003)
En la decada del 90, el sector agropecuario mexicano genero alrededor del 5% del PHI y el 2.5% de las exportaciones. A pesar de su reducida contribucion al PHI, el sector agropecuario tiene una gran importancia economica ...
Book
Análisis del sistema costarricense de investigación agropecuaria
(CIMMYT, 2003)
Las interacciones entre las instituciones públicas de investigación y el resto de los agentes del sistema de innovación son limitadas. Las dificultades del aparato público de investigación aumentaron por frecuentes cambios ...
Book
Rural Mexico 10 years after the North American free trade agreement: coping with a landscape of changeEl México rural 10 años después de la firma del tratado de libre comercio de América del Norte: enfrentar un panorama de cambio
(CIMMYT, 2004)
On the first day of 1994, Mexican agriculture and farmers' lives were slated to change. That was the day that the North American free trade agreement (NAFTA) came into effect. Signed by the governments of Canada, Mexico, ...