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Author : J. MacRobert
Publisher : CIMMYT
ISBN 13 : 9290592540
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (95 download)
Download or read book Seed Business Management in Africa written by J. MacRobert and published by CIMMYT. This book was released on 2009 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Publisher : CIMMYT
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)
Download or read book Seed Business in Africa written by and published by CIMMYT. This book was released on with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Venkatachalam Venkatesan
Publisher : World Bank Publications
ISBN 13 : 9780821330869
Total Pages : 130 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (38 download)
Download or read book Seed Systems in Sub-Saharan Africa written by Venkatachalam Venkatesan and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 1994-01-01 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: World Bank Discussion Paper No. 266. Seed production and distribution are important factors in determining the pace of agricultural development. For a seed system to be effective, it must satisfy the different requirements of each crop. Presently
Author : Paul van Mele
Publisher : CABI
ISBN 13 : 9781845938444
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (384 download)
Download or read book African Seed Enterprises written by Paul van Mele and published by CABI. This book was released on 2011 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In most developing countries, good quality seed is hard to obtain and farmers struggle to save seed from one year to the next. This title takes a people-centred look at the companies, public agencies and family farms that are taking on this role and making a difference to food security across Africa.
Author : Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Publisher : Food & Agriculture Org.
ISBN 13 : 9789251043233
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (432 download)
Download or read book Seed Policy and Programmes for Sub-Saharan Africa written by Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations and published by Food & Agriculture Org.. This book was released on 1999 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the major challenges facing most countries in sub-Saharan Africa is the need to invest significant resources into strengthening their capacity to increase the availability of good-quality seeds of a wider range of plant varieties. This publication presents the proceedings of the Regional Technical Meeting on Seed Policy and Programmes for sub-Saharan Africa.
Author : National Research Council
Publisher : National Academies Press
ISBN 13 : 0309164540
Total Pages : 378 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Lost Crops of Africa written by National Research Council and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2006-10-27 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This report is the second in a series of three evaluating underexploited African plant resources that could help broaden and secure Africa's food supply. The volume describes the characteristics of 18 little-known indigenous African vegetables (including tubers and legumes) that have potential as food- and cash-crops but are typically overlooked by scientists and policymakers and in the world at large. The book assesses the potential of each vegetable to help overcome malnutrition, boost food security, foster rural development, and create sustainable landcare in Africa. Each species is described in a separate chapter, based on information gathered from and verified by a pool of experts throughout the world. Volume I describes African grains and Volume III African fruits.
Author : Esbern Friis-Hansen
Publisher : Nordic Africa Institute
ISBN 13 : 9789171063656
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (636 download)
Download or read book Seeds for African Peasants written by Esbern Friis-Hansen and published by Nordic Africa Institute. This book was released on 1995 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Sara Boettiger
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780692242766
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (427 download)
Download or read book Growing Smartly written by Sara Boettiger and published by . This book was released on 1915-01-28 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Growing Smartly addresses a question the international development community has asked for many years: how do we scale up the adoption of technologies among the poor? The book focuses on agricultural technologies, and seed in particular, discussing the challenges of scaling seed systems in sub-Saharan Africa.
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Publisher : IITA
ISBN 13 : 9781313420
Total Pages : 50 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (813 download)
Download or read book Assessing the constraints affecting production and deployment of maize seed in DTMA countries of West Africa written by and published by IITA. This book was released on with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Derek Byerlee
Publisher : Lynne Rienner Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9781555877767
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (777 download)
Download or read book Africa's Emerging Maize Revolution written by Derek Byerlee and published by Lynne Rienner Publishers. This book was released on 1997 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Intended for policymakers and scholars, the 15 contributions in this volume are divided into two sections: the first provides six country case studies of the evolving maize economies of Zimbabwe, Zambia, Malawi, Kenya, Ghana, and Nigeria. The second part synthesizes major technological, institutional, and policy issues with chapters on research and extension, soil fertility, seed and fertilizer delivery systems, and marketing and price policy. Paper edition (754-0), $29.95. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
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Publisher : CIMMYT
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)
Download or read book Seed Business Management in Africa written by and published by CIMMYT. This book was released on with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Essegbemon Akpo
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 9789811580161
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (81 download)
Download or read book Enhancing Smallholder Farmers' Access to Seed of Improved Legume Varieties Through Multi-stakeholder Platforms written by Essegbemon Akpo and published by Springer. This book was released on 2021-12-19 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This open access book shares the experiences of Tropical Legumes III (TLIII) project in facilitating access to seed of improved legume varieties to smallholder farmers through innovation platforms. It highlights practices and guiding principles implemented in eight developing countries of sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia. This book details key processes that respective teams employed to create an innovation space that delivers seed, other inputs, knowledge and financial services to agricultural communities and most importantly, the underserved farmers in remote areas of the drylands. It offers valuable insights into the pathway to establishing, promoting and operating innovation platforms to enhance the performance and competitiveness of legume crops' value chains, and addresses critical issues that must be considered to make innovation platforms more sustainable and attractive to beneficiaries. The book offers a wealth of practical insights for development workers, technical staff, and project managers. This publication is all about TLIII community of practice. It will definitely inspire other development workers and scientists to share their own experiences for others to learn from.
Author : Timothy A. Wise
Publisher : The New Press
ISBN 13 : 1620974231
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (29 download)
Download or read book Eating Tomorrow written by Timothy A. Wise and published by The New Press. This book was released on 2019-02-05 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A powerful polemic against agricultural technology." —Nature A major new book that shows the world already has the tools to feed itself, without expanding industrial agriculture or adopting genetically modified seeds, from the Small Planet Institute expert Few challenges are more daunting than feeding a global population projected to reach 9.7 billion in 2050—at a time when climate change is making it increasingly difficult to successfully grow crops. In response, corporate and philanthropic leaders have called for major investments in industrial agriculture, including genetically modified seed technologies. Reporting from Africa, Mexico, India, and the United States, Timothy A. Wise's Eating Tomorrow discovers how in country after country agribusiness and its well-heeled philanthropic promoters have hijacked food policies to feed corporate interests. Most of the world, Wise reveals, is fed by hundreds of millions of small-scale farmers, people with few resources and simple tools but a keen understanding of what and how to grow food. These same farmers—who already grow more than 70 percent of the food eaten in developing countries—can show the way forward as the world warms and population increases. Wise takes readers to remote villages to see how farmers are rebuilding soils with ecologically sound practices and nourishing a diversity of native crops without chemicals or imported seeds. They are growing more and healthier food; in the process, they are not just victims in the climate drama but protagonists who have much to teach us all.
Author : Spielman, David J.
Publisher : Intl Food Policy Res Inst
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 4 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)
Download or read book Seed systems and markets: Reflection on policy progress and political economy written by Spielman, David J. and published by Intl Food Policy Res Inst. This book was released on 2021-12-23 with total page 4 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over the past two decades, seed systems and markets in many sub-Saharan African countries have become a central topic in the public discourse around agricultural development. The issues are complex, and often shaped by the specific nature of the crop itself, the agroecology it is cultivated in, and the channels through which farmers obtain seed. What attracts less attention are the political economy factors that shape seed systems development. Not since an array of scholars working with the Institute of Development Studies published a deep and thoughtful volume on the Politics of Seed in Africa’s Green Revolution has the topic of political economy received such attention.
Author : G. J. Persley
Publisher : Cabi
ISBN 13 : 9781786393814
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (938 download)
Download or read book The Business of Plant Breeding written by G. J. Persley and published by Cabi. This book was released on 2017 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is the result of a study on demand-led plant variety design for changing markets in Africa, the purpose of which is to identify and share best practices in demand-led plant breeding from private and public sector breeding programmes worldwide. The intended audiences are professionals in plant breeding and related areas, such as seed production, who have interests in developing and disseminating new plant varieties as a way to increase productivity and profitability in crop agriculture, especially in Africa. The volume is also intended for use as a resource book for the education of postgraduate scholars in plant breeding and genetics, and for the continuing professional development of plant breeders. For this purpose, boxes are included in the main sections of each chapter that summarize its educational objectives and present the key messages and questions that are involved; in addition, there is a final box at the end of each chapter that summarizes its overall learning objectives.
Author : Paul Richards
Publisher : Bioversity International
ISBN 13 : 9290433493
Total Pages : 64 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (94 download)
Download or read book Seeds and Survival written by Paul Richards and published by Bioversity International. This book was released on 1997 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Joseph DeVries
Publisher : CABI
ISBN 13 : 0851995640
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (519 download)
Download or read book Securing the Harvest written by Joseph DeVries and published by CABI. This book was released on 2001 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Improved food security, led by increased productivity among Africa's many small-scale farmers, has been the aim of significant national and international effort in recent decades. It has proved to be one of the most critical challenges facing humankind. This book grew out of a two-year exploration conducted by the food security theme of The Rockefeller Foundation focusing on the potential for crop genetic improvement to contribute to food security among rural populations in Africa. It provides a critical assessment of the ways in which recent breakthroughs in biotechnology, participatory plant breeding, and seed systems can be broadly employed in developing and delivering more productive crop varieties in Africa's diverse agricultural environments. It also presents an analysis of current plant breeding and biotechnology strategies for the key crops in Africa including: maize, sorghum, cowpea, rice, and cassava. The book will appeal to plant breeders, biotechnologists, and seed distributors as well as policy-makers in the area of agricultural development.
