CIAT Impact Highlights 1998
Author | : CIAT. Centro Internacional de Agricultura Tropical |
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Author | : Thomas S. Walker |
Publisher | : CABI |
Total Pages | : 480 |
Release | : 2015-10-26 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 1780644019 |
Following on from the CGIAR study by Evenson and Gollin (published by CABI in 2003), this volume provides up-to-date estimates of adoption outcomes and productivity impacts of crop variety improvement research in sub-Saharan Africa. The book reports on the results of the DIIVA Project that focussed on the varietal generation, adoption and impact for 20 food crops in 30 countries. It also compares adoption outcomes in sub-Saharan Africa to those in South Asia, and guides future efforts for global agricultural research
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Publisher | : IITA |
Total Pages | : 20 |
Release | : 2000 |
Genre | : Cassava |
ISBN | : 9789781311871 |
Author | : A. D. Hartkamp |
Publisher | : CIMMYT |
Total Pages | : 37 |
Release | : 2001 |
Genre | : Corn |
ISBN | : 9706480501 |
This publication presents a GIS-based approach for revising the definitions of global maize production environments, called “mega-environments” (MEs), used by CIMMYT and its partners. A cluster analysis was performed on climate data, representing a four-month growing season, for key maize producing locations. Assuming rainfed production, the onset of the growing season was determined based on the month when the ratio of precipitation over potential evapotranspiration exceeds 0.5. Diagnostic criteria for mapping MEs were based on cluster analysis results and expert knowledge. The resulting maps can be used to select appropriate target environments for maize germplasm and trials, as well as in priority setting and site selection for global maize breeding programs.
Author | : International Livestock Research Institute |
Publisher | : ILRI (aka ILCA and ILRAD) |
Total Pages | : 64 |
Release | : 1998-01-01 |
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Author | : Donald L. Sparks |
Publisher | : Gulf Professional Publishing |
Total Pages | : 282 |
Release | : 2004-03-23 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 9780120007998 |
Advances in Agronomy continues to be recognized as a leading reference and a first-rate source of the latest research in agronomy. Major reviews deal with the current topics of interest to agronomists, as well as crop and soil scientists. As always, the subjects covered are varied and exemplary of the myriad subject matter dealt with by this long-running serial. Editor Donald Sparks, former president of the Soil Science Society of America and current president of the International Union of Soil Science, is the S. Hallock du Pont Chair of Plant and Soil Sciences at The University of Delaware. Volume 81 contains five excellent reviews that discuss topics critical to agricultural and environmental sustainability. Maintains the highest impact factor among serial publications in Agriculture Presents timely reviews on important agronomy issues Enjoys a long-standing reputation for excellence in the field
Author | : Douglas Pachico |
Publisher | : CIAT |
Total Pages | : 291 |
Release | : 2004 |
Genre | : Agriculture |
ISBN | : 9586940640 |
Author | : Ehsan Dulloo |
Publisher | : Burleigh Dodds Agricultural Sc |
Total Pages | : 360 |
Release | : 2021-03-23 |
Genre | : Technology & Engineering |
ISBN | : 9781786764515 |
This collection starts by reviewing key issues such as valuing, identifying and monitoring plant genetic diversity. The book goes on to assess advances in in-situ and on-farm strategies for protecting crop wild relatives and landraces. Chapters cover topics such as local strategies for preserving crop genetic resources, in-situ management of wild plant populations, monitoring genetic diversity and collecting wild varieties. The book also discusses community-based conservation strategies, participatory plant breeding programmes and seed systems to ensure farmer access to improved varieties. Part 4 reviews key challenges facing ex-situ collections such as genebanks, including improved storage and conservation techniques. Parts 5 and 6 assesses improvements in characterising and evaluating plant genetic resources such as DNA-based screening and phenotyping, as well as ways of improving the quality and exchange of information and germplasm for use in breeding improved varieties.
Author | : Arild Angelsen |
Publisher | : CABI |
Total Pages | : 440 |
Release | : 2001-04-20 |
Genre | : Nature |
ISBN | : 9780851998992 |
This book has been developed from a workshop on Technological change in agriculture and tropical deforestation organised by the Center for International Forestry Research and held in Costa Rica in March, 1999. It explores how intensification of agriculture affects tropical deforestation using case studies from different geographical regions, using different agricultural products and technologies and in differing demographic situations and market conditions. Guidance is also given on future agricultural research and extension efforts.
Author | : Grégoire Leclerc |
Publisher | : UNM Press |
Total Pages | : 664 |
Release | : 2007 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 9780826337337 |
"The authors reexamine world development - usually the province of economists - as professionals trained in the natural sciences. They show how we have and might use tested scientific and technical procedures and concepts, as well as science itself, to achieve much better results than what has been characteristic of the past. Leclerc and Hall contend that to scholars with a scientific background, the process of development, and the economic logic behind it, often look almost surrealistic. The basic question at the foundation of this review is this: Why should something so important as world development, something capable of absorbing such vast sums of money and of human goodwill, something that impacts the people and the environment so much, continue to be organized and planned using economic techniques and theories that are both unconfirmed experimentally and proven to have led to development failures?"--BOOK JACKET.