Author: Eduardo Trigo, Eugenio Cap, Valeria Malach, Federico VillarrealPublisher: Intl Food Policy Res Inst
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Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 40
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The case of zero-tillage technology in Argentina
Author: Eduardo Trigo, Eugenio Cap, Valeria Malach, Federico VillarrealPublisher: Intl Food Policy Res Inst
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Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 40
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The Case of Zero-tillage Technology in Argentina
Author: E. TrigoPublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 32
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Argentine agriculture has undergone significant transformations over the past three decades. After a long period of stagnant production and productivity, starting in the early 1970s, a number of independent but interconnected events fostered a new technological cycle that induced rapid growth in cereals and oilseeds production. Zero tillage and the introduction of genetically modified soybean varieties were key elements of this change, which has significantly increased global supplies of soybeans, an essential food and feed crop. In the process, it has elevated Argentina to a leading position across agricultural commodity markets. This transformation was the result of an innovative partnership scheme--involving farmers, researchers, extension workers, and private companies--that came together in the 1990s to promote zero tillage, a resource-conserving cultivation practice. This partnership deserves most of the credit for increasing the area under zero tillage from 300 thousand to 22 million ha, between 1991 and 2008. The adoption of zero tillage improved soil fertility by reversing decades of soil degradation, created an estimated 200,000 new farm jobs, and shocked the agricultural commodity markets with additional supplies that helped keep global food prices from escalating. This paper reviews the institutional process through which these changes came about. It goes on to estimate the benefits attributable to the adoption of zero tillage, not only to Argentine farmers, in terms of increased income, but also to world consumers, measured in terms of savings in food expenditures. Total benefits are estimated at 34 billion dollars.
The impact of shallow tubewells and boro rice on food security in Bangladesh
Author: Mahabub HossainPublisher: Intl Food Policy Res Inst
ISBN:
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 32
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Controlling cassava mosaic virus and cassava mealybug in Sub-Saharan Africa
Author: Felix NwekePublisher: Intl Food Policy Res Inst
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Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 32
Book Description
Trade liberalization, poverty, and food security in India
Author: Manoj Panda, A. Ganesh-KumarPublisher: Intl Food Policy Res Inst
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Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 50
Book Description
Combating stem and leaf rust of wheat: Historical perspective, impacts, and lessons learned
Author: H.J. Dubin, John P. BrennanPublisher: Intl Food Policy Res Inst
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Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 64
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Improving diet quality and micronutrient nutrition: Homestead food production in Bangladesh
Author: Lora Iannotti, Kenda Cunningham, Marie RuelPublisher: Intl Food Policy Res Inst
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Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 44
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The mungbean transformation diversifying crops, defeating malnutrition
Author: Subramanyam Shanmugasundaram, J.D.H. Keatinge, Jacqueline dArros HughesPublisher: Intl Food Policy Res Inst
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Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 52
Book Description
Rich consumers and poor producers
Author: Johan F.M. Swinnen, Anneleen VandeplasPublisher: Intl Food Policy Res Inst
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Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 32
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Rural and urban linkages: Operation floods role in Indias dairy development
Author: Kenda CunninghamPublisher: Intl Food Policy Res Inst
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Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 48
Book Description
Between 1970 and 2009, India has overcome many infrastructural, market, and institutional challenges to transition from a dairy importing nation to the top producer in the world of both buffalo and goat milk, as well as the sixth largest producer of cow milk. In India, at least 100 million households are involved in farming and 70 million have dairy cattle. In India, dairy production is important for employment, income levels, and the nutritional quality of diets. Milk production in India is dominated by smallholder farmers including landless agricultural workers. For example, 80 percent of milk comes from farms with only two to five cows. A well-known smallholder dairy production initiative, Operation Flood, laid the foundation for a dairy cooperative movement that presently ensures returns on dairy investments to 13 million members. Operation Flood also advanced infrastructural improvements to enable the procurement, processing, marketing, and production of milk and to link India's major metropolitan cities with dairy cooperatives nationwide. This intervention transformed the policy environment, brought significant technological advancements into the rural milk sector, established many village cooperatives, and oriented the dairy industry toward markets.