Download or read book The mungbean transformation diversifying crops defeating malnutrition written by Subramanyam Shanmugasundaram, J.D.H. Keatinge, Jacqueline dArros Hughes and published by Intl Food Policy Res Inst. This book was released on with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Mungbean Transformation Diversifying Crops Defeating Malnutrition written by Subramanyam Shanmugasundaram and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 43 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mungbean is a major pulse crop in Asia. National partners in Bangladesh, Bhutan, China, India, Myanmar, Nepal, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, and Thailand collaborated with AVRDC - The World Vegetable Center, using an integrated, interdisciplinary approach to research and develop improved mungbean varieties and technologies. The effort aimed to resolve the major constraints limiting mungbean production and resulted in the release of improved varieties with traits such as short maturity duration, high yields, and disease resistance to Cercospora leaf spot, powdery mildew, and Mungbean yellow mosaic virus. The total area planted to improved varieties has reached almost 3 million hectares across these countries, providing an estimated 1.5 million farmers with yield increases of about 300 kilograms per hectare. In terms of consumption, mungbean consumption has increased 22 to 66 percent in the various countries, and has been demonstrated to improve the health of anemic women and children. This paper traces the research, development, and dissemination of improved mungbean in Asia and examines its impact on agricultural productivity and food security. Actions to sustain the intervention and support future research are noted.
Download or read book Impacts of prenatal and environmental factors on child growth written by Futoshi Yamauchi, Katsuhiko Higuchi, Rita Nur Suhaeti and published by Intl Food Policy Res Inst. This book was released on with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Improving the proof Evolution of and emerging trends in impact assessment methods and approaches in agricultural development written by Mywish K. Maredia and published by Intl Food Policy Res Inst. This book was released on with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Assessing impacts of public investments has long captured the interest and attention of the development community. This paper presents the evolution of different methods and approaches used for ex ante appraisal, monitoring, project evaluation, and impact assessment over the last five decades. Among these tools, impact assessment (IA) conducted retrospectively comes closest to providing the proof of development effectiveness. It is defined as the systematic analysis of the significant or lasting changes in people's lives brought about by a given action or series of actions in relation to a counterfactual. There are three basic types of retrospective IAs: macro-level IAs that focus on the contribution of developmental efforts to an impact goal aggregated at a sector or a system level; micro-level impact evaluations (IEs) concerned with estimating the average effect of an intervention on outcomes at the beneficiary level; and micro-level ex post impact analysis concerned with total effects of a development effort after the outputs are scaled-up. Ex post IAs have evolved and expanded over the decades in both breadth and depth of analysis in response to evolving development themes and methodological advancements. The increased emphasis on learning from evaluations has also seen responses from both quantitative and qualitative camps of the evaluation community. The paper argues that generation of robust knowledge that feeds into making developmental policies and investment decisions requires a hierarchical and cumulative approach to "improving the proof" through rigorous and a variety of impact assessment methods applied incrementally at the project, program and system level. Subjecting as many development interventions as resources allow to rigorous impact assessment based on a common framework can help build a critical body of evidence on impacts of development interventions, which can then be subjected to meta-analyses to help assimilate results across different studies and build a knowledge base on what works and what does not.
Download or read book Pearl millet and sorghum improvement in India written by Carl E. Pray, Latha Nagarajan and published by Intl Food Policy Res Inst. This book was released on 2009 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The spread of modern varieties and hybrids of pearl millet and sorghum that began in the mid-1960s has had an important impact on small farmer welfare in India. The success and sustainability of these improved cultivars resulted from three types (or periods) of interventions by the Indian government: (1) increased investments in crop improvement by national and international agricultural systems during the 1970s; (2) development of efficient seed systems, with the gradual inclusion of the private sector in the 1980s; and (3) the liberalization of the Indian seed industry in the late 1990s. In addition to increased overall production levels of sorghum and millet, there have been substantial yield gains in semi-arid regions as well as improved cultivars adopted in some of the poorest areas of India. The innovations of new, hybrid technology have not been limited to the Green Revolution crops; they have also had significant impact on the productivity of small-farmer households growing dryland crops, such as millet and sorghum in India.
Download or read book Institutional reform in the Burkinab cotton sector and its impacts on incomes and food security 1996 2006 written by Jonathan Kaminski, Derek Headey, Tanguy Bernard and published by Intl Food Policy Res Inst. This book was released on with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Millions Fed written by David J. Spielman and published by Intl Food Policy Res Inst. This book was released on 2009 with total page 179 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Humanity has made enormous progress in the past 50 years toward eliminating hunger and malnutrition. Some five billion people--more than 80 percent of the world's population--have enough food to live healthy, productive lives. Agricultural development has contributed significantly to these gains, while also fostering economic growth and poverty reduction in some of the world's poorest countries.
Download or read book Hybrid rice technology development Ensuring China s food security written by Jiming Li, Yeyun Xin, Longping Yuan and published by Intl Food Policy Res Inst. This book was released on with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Crossing the river while feeling the rocks Incremental land reform and its impact on rural welfare in China written by John W. Bruce, Zongmin Li and published by Intl Food Policy Res Inst. This book was released on with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Zero tillage in the rice wheat systems of the Indo Gangetic Plains A review of impacts and sustainability implications written by Olaf Erenstein and published by Intl Food Policy Res Inst. This book was released on with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Rich food for poor people Genetically improved tilapia in the Philippines written by Sivan Yosef and published by Intl Food Policy Res Inst. This book was released on with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The global effort to eradicate rinderpest written by Peter Roeder, Karl Rich and published by Intl Food Policy Res Inst. This book was released on with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book The case of zero tillage technology in Argentina written by Eduardo Trigo, Eugenio Cap, Valeria Malach, Federico Villarreal and published by Intl Food Policy Res Inst. This book was released on with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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