Insect Resistant Maize for Africa Annual Report 2003-2004
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Publisher : CIMMYT
Page : 156 pages
File Size : 16,15 MB
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ISBN : 9789706481320
Author :
Publisher : CIMMYT
Page : 156 pages
File Size : 16,15 MB
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ISBN : 9789706481320
Author : CIMMYT
Publisher : CIMMYT
Page : 146 pages
File Size : 14,77 MB
Release : 2014-07-01
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ISBN : 9706481516
Author : International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center
Publisher : CIMMYT
Page : 121 pages
File Size : 37,94 MB
Release : 2014-07-01
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ISBN : 970648082X
Author : Jürg Bürgi
Publisher : CABI
Page : 291 pages
File Size : 25,35 MB
Release : 2009
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 1845935691
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 : 46,52 MB
Release : 2019-11-07
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0228000459
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.
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Publisher : CIMMYT
Page : 112 pages
File Size : 49,84 MB
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ISBN : 9789706481030
Author : M. Mulaa
Publisher : CIMMYT
Page : 76 pages
File Size : 28,99 MB
Release : 2005
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9789706481337
Author : Debdatta Sengupta
Publisher : Intl Food Policy Res Inst
Page : 64 pages
File Size : 31,6 MB
Release : 2008
Category : Social Science
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Author : Bal Ram Singh
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 624 pages
File Size : 34,59 MB
Release : 2020-03-17
Category : Science
ISBN : 3030375374
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
Publisher : Intl Food Policy Res Inst
Page : 317 pages
File Size : 42,69 MB
Release : 2005-01-01
Category : Science
ISBN : 0896297373
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.