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Adoption of improved wheat technologies in Adaba and Dodola Woredas of the Bale highlands, Ethiopia
(EARO; CIMMYT, 2000)
This study assessed farmers' current wheat management practices, determined the technical and socioeconomic factors affecting the adoption of wheat technologies, and drew implications for research, extension, and policy. ...
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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 ...
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Using economics to explain spatial diversity in a wheat crop: examples from Australia and China
(CIMMYT, 1999)
Spatial diversity indicators may serve an important function for policymakers as they seek to manage crop genetic diversity and potential externalities associated with diffusion of some types of genetically improved crops. ...
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The adoption of bed planting of wheat in the Yaqui Valley, Sonora, Mexico
(CIMMYT, 1998)
This report presents results of the analysis of data from a survey conducted during the fall-winter 1993/94 crop cycle in the Yaqui Valley of northwestern Mexico. It describes the agronomic characters of wheat producers ...
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Sources of productivity growth in wheat: A review of recent performance and medium-to long-term prospects
(CIMMYT, 1999)
Sources of yield growth in wheat are investigated based on a stylized framework of technical change. Evidence suggests that the relative contribution of input intensification to yield growth has diminished in recent years ...
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Changing competitiveness of the wheat sector of Kazakhstan and sources of future productivity growth
(CIMMYT, 1999)
Economic incentives in Kazakhstan have been radically reshaped since the Soviet era ended in 1991. In the first phase of transition, the economy and agricultural sectors declined by 40-50%. Overall economic growth refused ...
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Impacts of international wheat breeding research in the developing world, 1988-2002
(CIMMYT, 2005)
The third in a series of global studies, this report (covering 1988-2002) documents the adoption and diffusion of modern wheat varieties in the developing world and assesses the benefits generated by international wheat ...
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The economic impact in developing countries of leaf rust resistance breeding in CIMMYT-related spring bread wheat
(CIMMYT, 2004)
This study was undertaken to estimate the economic impact of efforts since 1973 by the International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT) to develop spring bread wheat varieties resistant to leaf rust caused by ...
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Triticale production and utilization in Tunisia: constraints and prospects
(CIMMYT, 1995)
This study offers new, in-depth information about the production and utilization of triticale in Tunisia as a better basis for assessing alternative policy measures. Specifically, it analyzes recent trends in triticale ...
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Developing production of a non-traditional crop in Southeast Asia: wheat in Thailand
(CIMMYT, 1998)
Urbanization has led to increased wheat imports by nontraditional, wheat producing countries. Globally, Southeast Asia has had the most rapid increase in wheat consumption. Over the past decade, Thailand, Indonesia, the ...