Author: International Institute of AgriculturePublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 12
Book Description
The International Institute of Agriculture, Past, Present and Future
Author: International Institute of AgriculturePublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 12
Book Description
Advancing gender equality through agricultural and environmental research: Past, present, and future
Author: Pyburn, Rhiannon, ed.Publisher: Intl Food Policy Res Inst
ISBN: 0896293912
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 430
Book Description
Over the past decade, interest in gender equality and women’s empowerment has grown rapidly, creating a unique opportunity to institutionalize gender research within agricultural research for development. This book, edited by researchers from the CGIAR Gender Platform, reviews and reflects on the growing body of evidence from gender research. It marks a shift a way from a traditional focus on how gender analysis can contribute to improved productivity, flipping the question to ask, How does agricultural and environmental research and development contribute to gender equality and women’s empowerment? Chapters synthesize the wide range of CGIAR and other research in this area, covering breeding research and seed systems, value chain participation, nutrition-sensitive agriculture, natural resources, climate adaptation and mitigation, the “feminization” of agriculture, women’s role in agricultural research, and emerging gender transformative approaches.
Plant Breeding: Past, Present and Future
Author: John E. BradshawPublisher: Springer
ISBN: 3319232851
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 710
Book Description
This book aims to help plant breeders by reviewing past achievements, currently successful practices, and emerging methods and techniques. Theoretical considerations are also presented to strike the right balance between being as simple as possible but as complex as necessary. The United Nations predicts that the global human population will continue rising to 9.0 billion by 2050. World food production will need to increase between 70-100 per cent in just 40 years. First generation bio-fuels are also using crops and cropland to produce energy rather than food. In addition, land area used for agriculture may remain static or even decrease as a result of degradation and climate change, despite more land being theoretically available, unless crops can be bred which tolerate associated abiotic stresses. Lastly, it is unlikely that steps can be taken to mitigate all of the climate change predicted to occur by 2050, and beyond, and hence adaptation of farming systems and crop production will be required to reduce predicted negative effects on yields that will occur without crop adaptation. Substantial progress will therefore be required in bridging the yield gap between what is currently achieved per unit of land and what should be possible in future, with the best farming methods and best storage and transportation of food, given the availability of suitably adapted cultivars, including adaptation to climate change. My book is divided into four parts: Part I is an historical introduction; Part II deals with the origin of genetic variation by mutation and recombination of DNA; Part III explains how the mating system of a crop species determines the genetic structure of its landraces; Part IV considers the three complementary options for future progress: use of sexual reproduction in further conventional breeding, base broadening and introgression; mutation breeding; and genetically modified crops.
Roots and Tubers for the 21st Century
Author: Gregory J. ScottPublisher: Intl Food Policy Res Inst
ISBN: 0896296350
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 79
Book Description
Synthesizes a significant amount of data and information on roots and tubers in an effort to provide a clearer vision of their past, present, and future roles in the food systems of developing countries. How the production and use of these commodities have changed and will continue to change over time are all the more important to understand because of the contribution they make to the diets and income-generating activities of the rural and urban poor in Asia, Africa, and Latin America. Provides a fuller understanding of the prospects of roots and tubers for food, feed, and other uses in developing countries.
The influence of current and future climate-induced risk on the agricultural sector in East and Central Africa
Author: Publisher: ILRI (aka ILCA and ILRAD)
ISBN: 9291462381
Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 128
Book Description
World Agriculture
Author: Research on Migration in Africa: Past, Present, and Future
Author: Derek ByerleePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Rural-urban migration
Languages : en
Pages : 44
Book Description
Literature survey on African rural migration, with suggestions on future directions for improved theory and research methodology for economic research on migration.
Geneflow 2000-2001
Author: Publisher: Bioversity International
ISBN: 929043497X
Category : Crop zones
Languages : en
Pages : 19
Book Description
Roots and Tubers in the Global Food System
Author: Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research. Committee on Inter-Centre Root and Tuber Crops ResearchPublisher: IITA
ISBN: 9789290602033
Category : Root crops
Languages : en
Pages : 120
Book Description
In 1995, TAC commissioned an Inter-Centre Review of Root and Tuber Crops Research in the CGIAR, and that group's final report was submitted in April 1996. Among its findings, the review recommended that the Centers working on these crops prepare, in consultation with non-CGIAR members, "a comprehensive, documented text that sets out a vision for root and tuber research employing inter-Centre collaborations and institutional partnerships ... "(TAC, 1997). At International Centers' Week 1996, representatives of CIAT, CIP, IFPRI, IPGRI, and IITA met, formed an informal committee, and established a task force to prepare such a report, with CIP and CIAT representatives acting as co-convenors. This document synthesizes the principal findings of the subsequent work. Roots and tuber crops have myriad and complex roles to play in feeding the world in the coming decades. Far from being one sort of crop that serves one specific purpose, they will be many things to many-very many-people.
Author: Robert S. Chen