Author: Publisher: CIMMYT
ISBN: 9789706481320
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 156
Book Description
Insect Resistant Maize for Africa Annual Report 2003-2004
Author: Publisher: CIMMYT
ISBN: 9789706481320
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 156
Book Description
Insect Resistant Maize for Africa (IRMA Project) Annual Report 2006
Author: CIMMYTPublisher: CIMMYT
ISBN: 9706481516
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 146
Book Description
Insect Resistant Maize for Africa, Annual Report 2000
Author: International Maize and Wheat Improvement CenterPublisher: CIMMYT
ISBN: 970648082X
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 121
Book Description
Insect-resistant Maize
Author: Jürg BürgiPublisher: CABI
ISBN: 1845935691
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 291
Book Description
Many farmers in sub-Saharan Africa suffer heavily from crop losses due to stem borer pests. Insecticides are often unaffordable; therefore, maize plants must be made resistant to pests. The 'Insect Resistant Maize for Africa' (IRMA) project in Kenya was aimed at developing new maize varieties both by conventional methods and by biotechnologically incorporating the endotoxin produced by the soil bacteriumBacillus thuringiensis. The author gives an impartial and chronological account of this exemplary project between 1999 and 2008, supplemented by discussions of agricultural development policy and descriptions of Kenyan smallholders and the project team. He also takes critical and rational positions on the use of modern plant breeding techniques, biotechnology and development policy.
Africa's Gene Revolution
Author: Matthew A. SchnurrPublisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN: 0228000459
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 277
Book Description
As development donors invest hundreds of millions of dollars into improved crops designed to alleviate poverty and hunger, Africa has emerged as the final frontier in the global debate over agricultural biotechnology. The first data-driven assessment of the ecological, social, and political factors that shape our understanding of genetic modification, Africa's Gene Revolution surveys twenty years of efforts to use genomics-based breeding to enhance yields and livelihoods for African farmers. Matthew Schnurr considers the full range of biotechnologies currently in commercial use and those in development - including hybrids, marker-assisted breeding, tissue culture, and genetic engineering. Drawing on interviews with biotechnology experts alongside research conducted with more than two hundred farmers across eastern, western, and southern Africa, Schnurr reveals a profound incongruity between the optimistic rhetoric that accompanies genetic modification technology and the realities of the smallholder farmers who are its intended beneficiaries. Through the lens of political ecology, this book demonstrates that the current emphasis on improved seeds discounts the geographic, social, ecological, and economic contexts in which the producers of these crops operate. Bringing the voices of farmers to the foreground of this polarizing debate, Africa's Gene Revolution contends that meaningful change will come from a reconfiguration not only of the plant's genome, but of the entire agricultural system.
Insect Resistant Maize for Africa (IRMA) Project Annual Report 2002
Author: Publisher: CIMMYT
ISBN: 9789706481030
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 112
Book Description
Report of a Workshop on Integrating Pastures, Fodders, and Cereal Crops as Refugia for Stem Borers in the Farming Systems of the Humid Coastal Kenya
Author: M. MulaaPublisher: CIMMYT
ISBN: 9789706481337
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 76
Book Description
Biosafety at the Crossroads: An Analysis of South Africa's Marketing and Trade Policies for Genetically Modified Products
Author: Debdatta SenguptaPublisher: Intl Food Policy Res Inst
ISBN:
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 64
Book Description
Climate Impacts on Agricultural and Natural Resource Sustainability in Africa
Author: Bal Ram SinghPublisher: Springer Nature
ISBN: 3030375374
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 624
Book Description
This book discusses knowledge-based sustainable agro-ecological and natural resource management systems and best practices for sustained agricultural productivity and ecosystem resilience for better livelihoods under a changing climate. With a focus on agriculture in Africa, the book assesses innovative technologies for use on smallholder farms, and addresses some of the key Sustainable Development Goals to guide innovative responses and enhanced adaptation methods for coping with climate change. Contributions are based on 'Capacity Building for Managing Climate Change in Malawi' (CABMACC), a five-year program with an overall goal to improve livelihoods and food security through innovative responses and enhanced capacity of adaptation to climate change. Readers will discover more about sustainable crop production, climate smart agriculture, on-farm energy supply from biogas and the potential of soil carbon sequestration in crop-livestock systems.
Biotechnology, Agriculture, and Food Security in Southern Africa
Author: Steven Were OmamoPublisher: Intl Food Policy Res Inst
ISBN: 0896297373
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 317
Book Description
This book brings together experts from within and outside Africa to discuss the current status of biotechnology in southern Africa, the conceptual framework for multistakeholder dialogues, the political and ethical issues surrounding biotechnology, food safety and consumer issues, biosafety, intellectual property rights, and trade involving genetically modified foods.