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Author : Anonim
Publisher : CIMMYT
Page : 156 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2024-06-26
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 970648132X
Author : CIMMYT,KARI
Publisher : CIMMYT
Page : 146 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2014-07-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9789706481511
Author : International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center,Kenya Agricultural Research Institute
Publisher : CIMMYT
Page : 121 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2014-07-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9789706480828
Author : Jürg Bürgi
Publisher : CABI
Page : 291 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9781845935696
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.
Author : Matthew A. Schnurr
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 277 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2019-11-07
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780228000457
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.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : CIMMYT
Page : 112 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2024-06-26
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9706481036
Author : M. Mulaa,Mugo, S.N. ,Muli, B. ,Poland, D.
Publisher : CIMMYT
Page : 76 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9706481338
Author : Debdatta Sengupta
Publisher : Intl Food Policy Res Inst
Page : 64 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 8210379456XXX
Author : Bal Ram Singh,Andy Safalaoh,Nyambilila A. Amuri,Lars Olav Eik,Bishal K. Sitaula,Rattan Lal
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 624 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2020-03-17
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783030375379
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.
Author : Steven Were Omamo,Klaus von Grebmer
Publisher : Intl Food Policy Res Inst
Page : 317 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2005-01-01
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780896297371
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.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : CIMMYT
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2024-06-26
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9789706481849
Author : Marco C S Wopereis,David E Johnson,Nourollah Ahmadi,Eric Tollens,Abdulai Jalloh
Publisher : CABI
Page : 485 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2013-10-16
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9781845938123
At a time when Africa's food security stands threatened, Realizing Africa's Rice Promise provides a comprehensive overview of state-of-the-art research and recommendations for dealing with future challenges. With contributions from the key scientists working on rice in Africa, this volume addresses policy, genetic diversity and improvement, sustainable productivity enhancement, innovations and value chains. The book is useful for researchers, policy makers, agricultural ministries, donors, regional and sub-regional organizations, non-governmental development organizations and universities.
Author : Carmelo Rapisarda,Giuseppe E Massimino Cocuzza
Publisher : CABI
Page : 359 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2017-12-11
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9781780648002
This book provides up-to-date and comprehensive coverage of the research and application of Integrated Pest Management (IPM) in tropical regions. The first section explores the agro-ecological framework that represents the foundations of IPM, in addition to emerging technologies in chemical and biological methods that are core to pest control in tropical crops. The second section follows a crop-based approach and provides details of current IPM applications in the main tropical food crops (such as cereals, legumes, root and tuber crops, sugarcane, vegetables, banana and plantain, citrus, oil palm, tea, cocoa and coffee) and also fibre crops (such as cotton) and tropical forests.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : CIMMYT
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Plant breeding
ISBN : 9706481060
Author : Jörg Romeis,Anthony M. Shelton,George Kennedy
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 451 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2008-07-01
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9781402083730
Insect pests remain one of the main constraints to food and fiber production worldwide despite farmers deploying a range of techniques to protect their crops. Modern pest control is guided by the principles of integrated pest management (IPM) with pest resistant germplasm being an important part of the foundation. Since 1996, when the first genetically modified (GM) insect-resistant maize variety was commercialized in the USA, the area planted to insect-resistant GM varieties has grown dramatically, representing the fastest adoption rate of any agricultural technology in human history. The goal of our book is to provide an overview on the role insect-resistant GM plants play in different crop systems worldwide. We hope that the book will contribute to a more rational debate about the role GM crops can play in IPM for food and fiber production.
