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Author : Mugo, S.N. ,Poland, D. ,Mulaa, M. ,Hoisington, D.
Publisher : CIMMYT
Page : 46 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2014-07-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9789706481016
Author : Mugo, S.N. ,Poland, D. ,De Groote, H. ,Hoisington, D.A.
Publisher : CIMMYT
Page : 48 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2014-07-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9789706480583
Author : Siambi, M. ,Mugo, S.N. ,Ochieng, J.A.W.
Publisher : CIMMYT
Page : 41 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2014-07-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9789706480569
Author : Anonim
Publisher : CIMMYT
Page : 112 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2024-07-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9706481036
Author : CIMMYT,KARI
Publisher : CIMMYT
Page : 146 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2014-07-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9789706481511
Author : Anonim
Publisher : CIMMYT
Page : 156 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2024-07-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 970648132X
Author : Jürg Bürgi
Publisher : CABI
Page : 291 pages
File Size : 40,5 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 : International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center,Kenya Agricultural Research Institute
Publisher : CIMMYT
Page : 121 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2014-07-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9789706480828
Author : Anonim
Publisher : CIMMYT
Page : 84 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2024-07-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9706480927
Author : Anonim
Publisher : CIMMYT
Page : 550 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Corn
ISBN : 9789706481207
Author : Robert L. Paarlberg
Publisher : Intl Food Policy Res Inst
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2001-09-17
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780801868238
Genetically modified (GM) food crops have inspired increasing controversy over the past decade. By the mid-1990s they were widely grown in the U.S., Canada, and Argentina, but precautionary regulations continue to limit their use elsewhere. The restrictive policies of Europe and Japan toward GM crops have been much discussed. Less attention has been paid to the policies affecting the adoption of GM crops in the developing world, where their potential impact on the availability and quality of food is even greater. In this book Robert Paarlberg looks at the policy choices regarding GM food made by four important developing countries: Kenya, Brazil, India, and China. Of these, so far only China has approved the planting of GM crops. Paarlberg identifies five policy areas in which governments of developing countries can either support or discourage GM crops: intellectual property rights, biosafety, trade, food safety, and public research and investment. He notes that highly cautious biosafety policies have so far been the key reason that Kenya, Brazil, and India have hesitated to plant GM crops. These cautious policies have been strongly reinforced by international market forces and international diplomatic and NGO pressures. China has been less cautious toward GM crops, in part because there is less opportunity in China for international organizations or independent critics of GM crops to challenge official policy.
Author : Robert L. Paarlberg
Publisher : Intl Food Policy Res Inst
Page : 72 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2002-01-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780896296428
Commissioned by the International Food Policy Research Institute, this discussion paper asks who is responsible for assuring food security in an age of globalization? Paarlberg (political science, Wellesley College) argues that significant hunger persists in some regions largely because of governance deficits and failures at the national, rather than the global, level. He then suggests options for improving the performance of national governments in countries increasingly affected by hunger (particularly those in Africa). Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
Author : David J. Watson
Publisher : CIMMYT
Page : 122 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2024-07-01
Category : Agriculture
ISBN : 9789706481047
Proceedings of a conference by the Standing Panel on Impact Assessment (SPIA) of the Interim Science Council, Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research (CGIAR) and the Economics Program, the International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT), 4-7 February 2002, San José, Costa Rica.
Author : Stephen Whitfield
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2015-08-20
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781317534723
Future climatic and agro-ecological changes in Africa are uncertain and associated with high degrees of spatial and temporal variability and this change is differently simulated within divergent climate-crop models and in controlled crop breeding stations. Furthermore, uncertainty emerges in local contexts, not just in response to climatic systems, but to social, economic, and political systems, and often with implications for the appropriateness and adoption of technologies or the success of alternative cropping systems. This book examines the challenges of adaptation in smallholder farming in Africa, analysing the social, economic, political and climatic uncertainties that impact on agriculture in the region and the range of solutions proposed. Drawing on case studies of genetically modified crops, conservation agriculture, and other 'climate smart' solutions in eastern and southern Africa, the book identifies how uncertainties are framed 'from above' as well experienced 'from below', by farmers themselves. It provides a compelling insight into why ideas about adaptation emerge, from whom, and with what implications. This book offers a unique perspective and will be highly relevant to students of climate change adaptation, food security and poverty alleviation, as well as policy-makers and field practitioners in international development and agronomy.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 552 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Banks and banking
ISBN : STANFORD:36105113685122