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Author : Subramanyam Shanmugasundaram, J.D.H. Keatinge, Jacqueline dArros Hughes
Publisher : Intl Food Policy Res Inst
Page : 52 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2024-06-29
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 8210379456XXX
Author : David J. Spielman,Rajul Pandya-Lorch
Publisher : Intl Food Policy Res Inst
Page : 179 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780896296619
Humanity has made enormous progress in the past 50 years toward eliminating hunger and malnutrition. Some five billion people--more than 80 percent of the world's population--have enough food to live healthy, productive lives. Agricultural development has contributed significantly to these gains, while also fostering economic growth and poverty reduction in some of the world's poorest countries.
Author : Ramakrishnan M. Nair,Roland Schafleitner,Suk-Ha Lee
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 201 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2020-02-21
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783030200084
This book reports on the current global status of mungbean and its economic importance. Mungbean (Vigna radiata)—also called green gram—is an important food and cash crop in the rice-based farming systems of South and Southeast Asia, but is also grown in other parts of the world. Its short duration, low input requirement and high global demand make mungbean an ideal rotation crop for smallholder farmers. The book describes mungbean collections maintained by various organizations and their utilization, especially with regard to adapting mungbean to new environments. It provides an overview of the progress made in breeding for tolerance to biotic and abiotic stresses; nutritional quality enhancement including genomics approaches; and outlines future challenges for mungbean cultivation. In addition, genomic approaches to evaluating the evolutionary relationship between Vigna species and addressing questions concerning domestication, adaptation and genotype–phenotype relationships are also discussed
Author : Dharam P. Abrol
Publisher : Scientific Publishers
Page : 495 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2019-03-21
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9789388172332
Pest management for vegetable crops and safety provision for the pollinators is a challenging task in the context to increase vegetable productivity without upsetting the ecological balance. The book Pests and Pollinators of Vegetable and Oilseed Crops aims to integrate and develop pest control strategies by minimizing their impact on beneficial insect species such as natural enemies and pollinators for enhancing fruit production and quality. A detailed account is provided on pests and pollinators of oilseed crops such as Cruciferous, Solanaceous, Umbelliferous, Cucurbitaceous, Malvaceous, Leguminous and Alliaceae. The compilation of this book is unique as it does not deal only with the conventional way of pest management for different crops; it takes into consideration the role of pollinators and their profitable utilization in the larger context of ecologically based pest management and safety of pollinators. An exemplary attempt is made to promote a large, diverse, sustainable and dependable bee pollinator workforce that can meet the challenges of optimizing food production in the twenty-first century and beyond.
Author : David J. Spielman,Rajul Pandya-Lorch
Publisher : Intl Food Policy Res Inst
Page : 648 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2010-01-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 8210379456XXX
The world has made enormous progress in the past 50 years toward eliminating hunger and malnutrition. While, in 1960, roughly 30 percent of the world's population suffered from hunger and malnutrition, today less than 20 percent doessome five billion people now have enough food to live healthy, productive lives. Agricultural development has contributed significantly to these gains by increasing food supplies, reducing food prices, and creating new income and employment opportunities for some of the world's poorest people.This book examines where, why, and how past interventions in agricultural development have succeeded. It carefully reviews the policies, programs, and investments in agricultural development that have reduced hunger and poverty across Africa, Asia, and Latin America over the past half century. The 19 successes included here are described in in-depth case studies that synthesize the evidence on the intervention's impact on agricultural productivity and food security, evaluate the rigor with which the evidence was collected, and assess the tradeoffs inherent in each success. Together, these chapters provide evidence of "what works" in agricultural development.
Author : Sajad Majeed Zargar,Antonio Masi,Romesh Kumar Salgotra
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2021-09-29
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9789811638763
This book covers important topics on various neglected and underutilised crops (vegetables, cereals, fruit crops). It gives an overview of the potential, availability of genetic and genomic resources, and the future prospects of these food crops. The book presents different chapters on the importance of underutilised crops with respect to sustainable agriculture and describes the approaches that must be followed for improving the yield and production of these crops. It covers a wide range of food crops such as millet, buckwheat, underutilised spices, underutilised vegetables and underutilised fruit crops. It also provides insights on what smart foods are? And, whether these neglected crops qualify as smart foods? This up-to-date and informative book is meant for food scientists, geneticists, breeders and biotechnologists. It is of interest to students, researchers and course instructors in these fields.
Author : Chris Reij, Gray Tappan, Melinda Smale
Publisher : Intl Food Policy Res Inst
Page : 52 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2024-06-29
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 8210379456XXX
Author : Enoch Kikulwe, Ekin Birol, Justus Wesseler, José Falck-Zepeda
Publisher : Intl Food Policy Res Inst
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2024-06-29
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 8210379456XXX
Author : Hiroyuki Takeshima
Publisher : Intl Food Policy Res Inst
Page : 44 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 8210379456XXX
This paper discusses the application of the equilibrium displacement model (EDM) to estimate ex-ante the welfare effects of biological productivity growth for semi-subsistence crop and its impact on poverty reduction. The conventionally used EDM is compared with an alternative EDM that reflects more realistic assumptions for African semi-subsistence crops, such as the shape and shift of supply curve, significant margins due to high transportation costs between farmgate and consumption market, as well as between different consumption markets, and the degree of precisions of estimated structural parameters. The application to the dataset for Benin cassava farmers provides an example that the conventional EDM may significantly overestimate the total welfare gains, and may also lead to very different interpretation of how pro-poor the technology is.
Author : Carl E. Pray, Latha Nagarajan
Publisher : Intl Food Policy Res Inst
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 8210379456XXX
The spread of modern varieties and hybrids of pearl millet and sorghum that began in the mid-1960s has had an important impact on small farmer welfare in India. The success and sustainability of these improved cultivars resulted from three types (or periods) of interventions by the Indian government: (1) increased investments in crop improvement by national and international agricultural systems during the 1970s; (2) development of efficient seed systems, with the gradual inclusion of the private sector in the 1980s; and (3) the liberalization of the Indian seed industry in the late 1990s. In addition to increased overall production levels of sorghum and millet, there have been substantial yield gains in semi-arid regions as well as improved cultivars adopted in some of the poorest areas of India. The innovations of new, hybrid technology have not been limited to the Green Revolution crops; they have also had significant impact on the productivity of small-farmer households growing dryland crops, such as millet and sorghum in India.
Author : Jonathan Kaminski, Derek Headey, Tanguy Bernard
Publisher : Intl Food Policy Res Inst
Page : 56 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2024-06-29
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 8210379456XXX
Author : Jiming Li, Yeyun Xin, Longping Yuan
Publisher : Intl Food Policy Res Inst
Page : 40 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2024-06-29
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 8210379456XXX
Author : Tewodaj Mogues, Samuel Benin, Godsway Cudjoe
Publisher : Intl Food Policy Res Inst
Page : 40 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2024-06-29
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 8210379456XXX
Author : Peter B.R. Hazell
Publisher : Intl Food Policy Res Inst
Page : 40 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2024-06-29
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 8210379456XXX
Author : John W. Bruce, Zongmin Li
Publisher : Intl Food Policy Res Inst
Page : 60 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2024-06-29
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 8210379456XXX
