Download or read book Chimanga Cha Makolo Hybrids and Composites written by and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 62 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Chimanga cha makolo hybrids and composites written by M. Smale and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 62 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Three distinct settings for tchnology adoption; A universal consumption preference for local maize; Toward a toxonomy of local maize; Characteristics of the maize technology adoption decision; Aggregate area sown to varieties and aggregate production.

Download or read book Starter Packs written by Sarah Levy and published by CABI. This book was released on 2005 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Despite repeated interventions by governments, donors and NGOs in recent years, food insecurity continues and developing countries are forced to rely on food aid again and again. The original idea of Starter Pack was to give a tiny bag of agricultural inputs - fertiliser and seed - to every smallholder farmer in Malawi. Although the programme did not work as originally intended, it was successful in achieving food security. The scaling down of the programme was a major contributor to the food crisis which hit Malawi (and other countries in Southern Africa) at the beginning of 2002. For once, we have a success story about how hunger can be tackled efficiently. This book assesses the case of the Starter Pack programme in Malawi, and whether it can be replicated elsewhere. It covers the practicalities of implementing such a large programme and the policy debates.

Download or read book Farmers Gene Banks and Crop Breeding Economic Analyses of Diversity in Wheat Maize and Rice written by Melinda Smale and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Crop Management Research and Extension written by Gregory J. Traxler and published by CIMMYT. This book was released on 1992 with total page 70 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The analytical framework and the empirical model; The yaqui valley; Crop management research in the Yaqui Valley; Monitoring the imapcts of crop management research.

Download or read book Integrated Approaches to Higher Maize Productivity in the New Millennium written by and published by CIMMYT. This book was released on 2004 with total page 550 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Modern Varieties Productivity and Sustainability written by Derek Byerlee and published by CIMMYT. This book was released on 1994 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Securing the Harvest written by Joseph DeVries and published by CABI. This book was released on 2001 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Improved food security, led by increased productivity among Africa's many small-scale farmers, has been the aim of significant national and international effort in recent decades. It has proved to be one of the most critical challenges facing humankind. This book grew out of a two-year exploration conducted by the food security theme of The Rockefeller Foundation focusing on the potential for crop genetic improvement to contribute to food security among rural populations in Africa. It provides a critical assessment of the ways in which recent breakthroughs in biotechnology, participatory plant breeding, and seed systems can be broadly employed in developing and delivering more productive crop varieties in Africa's diverse agricultural environments. It also presents an analysis of current plant breeding and biotechnology strategies for the key crops in Africa including: maize, sorghum, cowpea, rice, and cassava. The book will appeal to plant breeders, biotechnologists, and seed distributors as well as policy-makers in the area of agricultural development.

Download or read book The Economic Impact and the Distribution of Benefits and Risk from the Adoption of Insect Resistant Bt Cotton in West Africa written by Jose Falck-Zepeda, Daniela Horna, and Melinda Smale and published by Intl Food Policy Res Inst. This book was released on with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Continuous Economic Analysis of Crop Response to Fertilizer in On farm Research written by Mario A. Jauregui and published by CIMMYT. This book was released on 1992 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Basic concepts for continuous analysis of fertilizer response data; Choice of functional form; Development of a general model for deriving farmer recommendations; Special topics.

Download or read book Agriculture and Ecosystem Resilience in Sub Saharan Africa written by Yazidhi Bamutaze and published by Springer. This book was released on 2019-05-22 with total page 763 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume discusses emerging contexts of agricultural and ecosystem resilience in Sub Saharan Africa, as well as contemporary technological advances that have influenced African livelihoods. In six sections, the book addresses the sustainable development goals to mitigate the negative impacts on agricultural productivity brought about by climate change in Africa. Some of the challenges assessed include soil degradation, land use changes, natural resource mismanagement, declining crop productivity, and economic stagnation. This book will be of interest to researchers, NGOs, and development organizations. Section 1 focuses on climate risk management in tropical Africa. Section 2 addresses the water-ecosystem-agriculture nexus, and identifies the best strategies for sustainable water use. Section 3 introduces Information Communication Technology (ICT), and how it can be used for ecosystem and human resilience to improve quality of life in communities. Section 4 discusses the science and policies of transformative agriculture, including challenges facing crop production and management. Section 5 addresses landscape processes, human security, and governance of agro-ecosystems. Section 6 concludes the book with chapters uniquely covering the gender dynamics of agricultural, ecosystem, and livelihood resilience.

Download or read book From Adjustment To Development In Africa written by Giovanni Andrea Cornia and published by Springer. This book was released on 1994-09-22 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book considers the principal sources of agreement and disagreement among policymakers and analysts concerning the current economic problems of Sub-Saharan Africa. A distinguished collection of international and African authors, including economists from the IMF and the World Bank, as well as their critics, addresses the key policy issues in agriculture, trade, macroeconomic management, social issues, privatization, external capital flow, and political economy. An introductory interpretive essay searches for areas of consensus and identifies those of continuing controversy.

Download or read book Changing Priorities for International Agricultural Research written by Robert W. Herdt and published by CIMMYT. This book was released on 2001 with total page 46 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Global food security; Global changes; Global physical and biological changes; Factors determining public sector research resource allocation; Challenges for agriculture; Implication of global change for public international agricultural research.

Download or read book Maize Seed Industries in Developing Countries written by Michael L. Morris and published by Lynne Rienner Publishers. This book was released on 1998 with total page 422 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Divided into four parts, this volume first lays out the importance of maize seed industries and presents a conceptual framework. The second section describes the key products and processes associated with maize seed industries, including varietal development, marketing, and industrial regulation. The third section offers nine country case studies, while the fourth part discusses the likely future course of seed industry development and alternative organizational forms. Paper edition (unseen), $29.95. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Download or read book Maize Technology in Malawi written by Paul W. Heisey and published by CIMMYT. This book was released on 1995 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Developing Drought and Low N tolerant Maize written by G. O. Edmeades and published by CIMMYT. This book was released on 1996 with total page 580 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Incidence and intensity of drought and low N stresss in the tropics; Case studies strategies for crop production under drought and low n stresses in the tropics; Stress physology and identification of secondary traits; Physiology of low nitrogen stress; Breeding for tolerance to drought and low n stresses; General breeding strategies for stress tolerance; Progress in breeding drought tolerance; Progress in breeding low nitrogen tolerance; Experimental design and software.

Download or read book Organic Seed Traditional Varieties and Technologies written by K. Vanangamudi and published by Scientific Publishers. This book was released on 2011-06-01 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The production and supply of organic seed is the need of the hour to facilitate the organic Agriculture, which ensures the production of the organic food products free from the toxic substances for better human health. But, also to conserve the soil and environmental health for well-beings of the human life including the flora and fauna. Keeping the importance of the organic agriculture, the book on "Organic seed" has been compiled which is first of its kind in India. This book consists of four major parts. Part I deals with the documentation of the indigenous varieties in cereals, pulses, oilseeds and vegetables. In Part II, an overview of organic agriculture, requirements and technologies for organic seed production with special reference to rice and cotton, seed quality treatments, certification, marketing and storage of organic seed are discussed. Part III includes the technologies for production, processing and storage of seed. Role of community seed bank, seed fairs and farmers participatory plant breeding are included in the Part IV.