Author: International Maize and Wheat Improvement CenterPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Corn
Languages : en
Pages : 64
Book Description
CIMMYT in ...
Author: International Maize and Wheat Improvement CenterPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Corn
Languages : en
Pages : 64
Book Description
CIMMYT's Formal Training Activities
Author: Leslie J. CooksyPublisher: CIMMYT
ISBN: 9706481400
Category : Agricultural extension workers
Languages : en
Pages : 58
Book Description
Perspectives on CIMMYT's Future
Author: International Maize and Wheat Improvement CenterPublisher: CIMMYT
ISBN: 9706481087
Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 19
Book Description
As part of the strategic planning process initiated in July 2002, CIMMYT commissioned the Meridian Institute to conduct an extensive consultation with more than 170 stakeholders worldwide, representing national agricultural research services, CGIAR Centers, advanced research institutes, the private sector, donor agencies, and representatives of farmer groups. The interviews elicited highly divergent opinions and valuable insights into how others perceive CIMMYT and its future. Overall, the consultations revealed that CIMMYT's products and activities are greatly appreciated and serve an apparent need. There was concurrence that CIMMYT has a comparative advantage in many areas - human resources and networks, breeding expertise and germplasm collections, and research and training programs - and that it should increase its collaborative efforts and ensure greater access to its products. Most of all, the stakeholders believed that for CIMMYT to survive and continue its history as a highly successful organization, it should move beyond discussion of new strategies and take decisive action toward real change.
CIMMYT
Author: International Maize and Wheat Improvement CenterPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Corn
Languages : en
Pages : 58
Book Description
Catalogue of Research Literature for Development: Food production and nutrition
Author: United States. Agency for International Development. Bureau for Technical AssistancePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Agricultural assistance, American
Languages : en
Pages : 456
Book Description
Physiological Breeding
Author: Alistair PaskPublisher: CIMMYT
ISBN: 9706481826
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 140
Book Description
Foreign Assistance and Related Programs Appropriations for Fiscal Year 1986: Agency for International Development
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Appropriations. Subcommittee on Foreign OperationsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Economic assistance, American
Languages : en
Pages : 1638
Book Description
Sustainable maize production systems for Nepal. Proceedings of a Maize Symposium; Kathmandu (Nepal); 3-5 Dec 2001
Author: Rajbhandari, N.P. Publisher: CIMMYT
ISBN: 999332051X
Category : Corn
Languages : en
Pages : 313
Book Description
Endangered Maize
Author: Helen Anne CurryPublisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520307682
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 335
Book Description
"Many people worry that we're losing genetic diversity in the foods we eat. Over the past century, crop varieties standardized for industrial agriculture have increasingly dominated farm fields. Concerned about what this transition means for the future of food, scientists, farmers, and eaters have sought to protect crop plants they consider endangered. They have organized high-tech genebanks and heritage seed swaps. They have combed fields for ancient landraces and sought farmers growing Indigenous varieties. Behind this widespread concern for the loss of plant diversity lies another extinction narrative about the survival of farmers themselves, a story that is often obscured by urgent calls to collect and preserve. Endangered Maize draws on the rich history of corn in Mexico and the United States to trace the motivations behind these hidden extinction stories and show how they shaped the conservation strategies adopted by scientists, states, and citizens. In Endangered Maize, historian Helen Anne Curry investigates more than a hundred years of agriculture and conservation practices to understand the tasks that farmers and researchers have considered essential to maintaining crop diversity. Through the contours of efforts to preserve diversity in one of the world's most important crops, Curry reveals how conservationists forged their methods around expectations of social, political, and economic transformations that would eliminate diverse communities and cultures. In this fascinating study of how cultural narratives shape science, Curry argues for new understandings of endangerment and alternative strategies to protect and preserve crop diversity"--
Saving Seeds
Author: Bonwoo KooPublisher: CABI
ISBN: 9780851990453
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
The conservation of genetic resources is vital to the maintenance of biodiversity and to the world's ability to feed its growing population. There are now more than a thousand genebanks worldwide involved in the ex situ (meaning 'away from the source') storage of particular classes of crops. Since the 1970s, the eleven genebanks maintained by the centres of the Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research (CGIAR) have become pivotal to the global conservation effort. However, key policy and management issues ' usually with economic dimensions ' have largely been overlooked.This provided the impetus for a series of detailed economic studies, led by IFPRI, in collaboration with five CGIAR centres: CIAT (based in Colombia), CIMMYT (Mexico), ICARDA (Syria), ICRISAT (India) and IRRI (Philippines). This book reports these studies and discusses their wider implications.