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Author : Aníbal Monares
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Total Pages : 456 pages
Book Rating : 4.E/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Potato Seed System in the Andean Region written by Aníbal Monares and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Rember Pinedo-Taco
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Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (139 download)
Download or read book Use of Quality Potato Seeds in Family Farming Systems in the Highlands Zones of Peru written by Rember Pinedo-Taco and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the Andean region of Peru, the predominant production system for potatoes is family farming, oriented towards self-consumption, seed provision, and the sale of surplus production. Labor force activities for land preparation, sowing, maintenance, harvest and postharvest are under the responsibility of the family and eventually they hire farm laborers, when parcels are of a considerable size. Approximately 95% of the cultivated surface of potato crops is located in the high Andean zone, from 3000 to 4200 meters above sea level (masl), employing native varieties of tuber seeds and modern seeds introduced to production systems in the past 50 years. Potato systems in Peru, like the majority of underdeveloped countries, are characterized by the co-existence of formal and informal systems. Formal systems prioritize production and commercialization of seeds of just a few varieties positioned in modern markets which are regulated and accredited by a certification body according to the current legislation, while in the informal system the guarantee of seed quality falls under the responsibility of the very producers and users of those seeds.
Author : Christine Graves
Publisher : International Potato Center
ISBN 13 : 9789290602057
Total Pages : 234 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (2 download)
Download or read book The Potato Treasure of the Andes written by Christine Graves and published by International Potato Center. This book was released on 2001 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Hugo Campos
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030286835
Total Pages : 524 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (32 download)
Download or read book The Potato Crop written by Hugo Campos and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2019-12-03 with total page 524 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is open access under a CC BY 4.0 license. This book provides a fresh, updated and science-based perspective on the current status and prospects of the diverse array of topics related to the potato, and was written by distinguished scientists with hands-on global experience in research aspects related to potato. The potato is the third most important global food crop in terms of consumption. Being the only vegetatively propagated species among the world’s main five staple crops creates both issues and opportunities for the potato: on the one hand, this constrains the speed of its geographic expansion and its options for international commercialization and distribution when compared with commodity crops such as maize, wheat or rice. On the other, it provides an effective insulation against speculation and unforeseen spikes in commodity prices, since the potato does not represent a good traded on global markets. These two factors highlight the underappreciated and underrated role of the potato as a dependable nutrition security crop, one that can mitigate turmoil in world food supply and demand and political instability in some developing countries. Increasingly, the global role of the potato has expanded from a profitable crop in developing countries to a crop providing income and nutrition security in developing ones. This book will appeal to academics and students of crop sciences, but also policy makers and other stakeholders involved in the potato and its contribution to humankind’s food security.
Author : Karl S. Zimmerer
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 0262549697
Total Pages : 403 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (625 download)
Download or read book Agrobiodiversity written by Karl S. Zimmerer and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2023-10-31 with total page 403 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Experts discuss the challenges faced in agrobiodiversity and conservation, integrating disciplines that range from plant and biological sciences to economics and political science. Wide-ranging environmental phenomena—including climate change, extreme weather events, and soil and water availability—combine with such socioeconomic factors as food policies, dietary preferences, and market forces to affect agriculture and food production systems on local, national, and global scales. The increasing simplification of food systems, the continuing decline of plant species, and the ongoing spread of pests and disease threaten biodiversity in agriculture as well as the sustainability of food resources. Complicating the situation further, the multiple systems involved—cultural, economic, environmental, institutional, and technological—are driven by human decision making, which is inevitably informed by diverse knowledge systems. The interactions and linkages that emerge necessitate an integrated assessment if we are to make progress toward sustainable agriculture and food systems. This volume in the Strüngmann Forum Reports series offers insights into the challenges faced in agrobiodiversity and sustainability and proposes an integrative framework to guide future research, scholarship, policy, and practice. The contributors offer perspectives from a range of disciplines, including plant and biological sciences, food systems and nutrition, ecology, economics, plant and animal breeding, anthropology, political science, geography, law, and sociology. Topics covered include evolutionary ecology, food and human health, the governance of agrobiodiversity, and the interactions between agrobiodiversity and climate and demographic change.
Author : Patricio Malagamba
Publisher : International Potato Center
ISBN 13 : 9789290601166
Total Pages : 50 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (11 download)
Download or read book True Potato Seed written by Patricio Malagamba and published by International Potato Center. This book was released on 1988 with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Publisher : International Potato Center
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Total Pages : 32 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)
Download or read book The Dynamics of Andean Potato Agriculture written by and published by International Potato Center. This book was released on with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Devra Ivy Jarvis
Publisher : Bioversity International
ISBN 13 : 9290436735
Total Pages : 162 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (94 download)
Download or read book Seed systems and crop genetic diversity on-farm : proceedings of a workshop, 16 - 20 September 2003, Pucallpa, Peru written by Devra Ivy Jarvis and published by Bioversity International. This book was released on 2005 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Charles C. Crissman
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Total Pages : 80 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)
Download or read book Seed Potato Systems in Ecuador written by Charles C. Crissman and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Potatoes in Ecuador; Farm agroeconomic setting and informal seed system; Breeding and variety selection for production; Initial seed multiplications; Buiding seed supplies; Issues.
Author : A.J. Haverkort
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9086865623
Total Pages : 366 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (868 download)
Download or read book Potato in progress written by A.J. Haverkort and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2023-08-28 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book contains the proceedings of the Potato 2005 conference, held in Emmeloord, The Netherlands. This conference offered a platform to a diverse group of stakeholders in the potato industry to learn what science has to offer. At the same time it created an environment for scientists to learn what drives the industry in the rapidly changing world of the potato. The contributions in this book reflect the rapid developments both in the industry and in science. The nutritional aspects of the potato tuber are discussed as well as the volatile consumer moods in saturated or new markets. Latest developments in potato breeding and seed potato production are highlighted and these contributions underline how these potato sectors have been revolutionized. The present and future role of decision support systems in managing inputs of nitrogen and water and in managing pests (and thus in making potato production more sustainable) is described. Several innovations in technology development in potato production and storage are illustrated. Experts provide the latest news on crop protection, with a focus on developments in the control of the potato brown rot bacterium and late blight. Finally the trends in potato trade are described. This book shows that the potato crop is progressing globally - with increasing impact on food supply and added value - providing many opportunities for science to meet practice.
Author : Devaux, A.
Publisher : International Potato Center
ISBN 13 : 9290604107
Total Pages : 444 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (96 download)
Download or read book Innovation for development written by Devaux, A. and published by International Potato Center. This book was released on 2011-11-30 with total page 444 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : de Haan, S.
Publisher : International Potato Center
ISBN 13 : 9789085853312
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (533 download)
Download or read book Potato diversity at height written by de Haan, S. and published by International Potato Center. This book was released on 2009 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ELISA tests were conduced for APMoV, PLRV, PMTV, PVY and PVX.
Author : Wietse Vroom
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9086866808
Total Pages : 215 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (868 download)
Download or read book Reflexive biotechnology development written by Wietse Vroom and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2023-09-04 with total page 215 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Agriculture plays a crucial role in the alleviation of extreme poverty and hunger. Development of new crop varieties that are more resistant to disease and pests, and that produce more in dry conditions or on poor soils, can contribute to agricultural development. However, while the technical potential to improve crop varieties is increasing rapidly, such technologies do not always successfully contribute to the economic development of resource poor farmers. New technologies may never reach farmers, may be prohibitively expensive, or may solve only a very limited part of the problem that farmers are facing in practice. This book engages with the debate on how modern genetic technologies are used in plant breeding, and questions what it is that makes a new technology appropriate for pro-poor agricultural development. It does so by moving beyond a technical perspective on what constitutes 'appropriate technology' and by analyzing how different approaches to agro-technological development create different social roles for technology developers and farmers in innovation processes and production systems. Case studies of projects and international research centres in India, Peru and Mexico provide an insight in the different approaches to agro-technological development in which farmers are treated as 'recipients of technology', or are involved as 'co-innovators', and in which technology developers present themselves as 'solution providers' or as 'service providers'. Insight in those different approaches contributes to a clearer debate on the potential role of biotechnology in agricultural development and the reduction of poverty.
Author : David Arthur Cleveland
Publisher : CABI
ISBN 13 : 9780851998817
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (988 download)
Download or read book Farmers, Scientists, and Plant Breeding written by David Arthur Cleveland and published by CABI. This book was released on 2002-01-01 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The purpose of this book is to examine the nature of and relationship between the knowledge of farmers and of scientists, and how these can be best integrated in plant breeding.
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Publisher : International Potato Center
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 116 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)
Download or read book written by and published by International Potato Center. This book was released on with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Steven Jaffee
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Total Pages : 134 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Seed System Development written by Steven Jaffee and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This paper analyzes the economic and institutional factors affecting the appropriate roles for the public and private sectors in seed supply systems, it also examines the current mix of public and private sector seed activities world-wide, and traces changes in the structure and operation of national seed systems in selected industrialized and developed countries. By defining the scope for private sector involvement in seed development and supply activities as well as critical and complementary roles for the public sector in development of efficient seed systems, this paper seeks to contribute to the design of improved strategies for seed system development in developing countries and in formerly centrally planned countries.
Author : National Research Council
Publisher : National Academies Press
ISBN 13 : 030904264X
Total Pages : 441 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (9 download)
Download or read book Lost Crops of the Incas written by National Research Council and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 1989-02-01 with total page 441 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This fascinating, readable volume is filled with enticing, detailed information about more than 30 different Incan crops that promise to follow the potato's lead and become important contributors to the world's food supply. Some of these overlooked foods offer special advantages for developing nations, such as high nutritional quality and excellent yields. Many are adaptable to areas of the United States. Lost Crops of the Incas includes vivid color photographs of many of the crops and describes the authors' experiences in growing, tasting, and preparing them in different ways. This book is for the gourmet and gourmand alike, as well as gardeners, botanists, farmers, and agricultural specialists in developing countries.
