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Enhancing biodiversity and production through participatory plant breeding: Setting breeding goals
International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT)
https://hdl.handle.net/10568/81871
Abstract
Participatory plant breeding (PPB) is one of the on-farm conservation strategies designed to maintain or enhance the level of landrace genetic diversity deployed on-farm. The global in situ project .aims to strengthen the skiIls and knowledge of local communities in locating and understanding the value of landraces, and…
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Experience, research, and facts related to local species of paddy
International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT)
https://hdl.handle.net/10568/81926
Abstract
This paper presents a discussion of the qualities of local species of paddy rice, along with the advantages of growing it-marketability, flavor, and use in religious ceremonies-from a farmer's perspective. It also compares production technologies tor local paddy and improved varieties, with information on traditional techniques for seed management…
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Using farmer knowledge for participatory sweet-potato variety selection in Garut, West Java, Indonesia
International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT)
https://hdl.handle.net/10568/81886
Abstract
This paper describes trials using sweet-potato germplasm from lrian Jaya, where sweet potatoes are a staple food in the highlands. During the collection of sweet-potato germplasm, farmers' knowledge of those sweet potatoes has also been collected. Fanners' knowledge about sweet potatoes in Irian Jaya will be…
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Participatory plant breeding in rice in Eastern India
International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT)
https://hdl.handle.net/10568/81894
Abstract
This paper describes a participatory plant-breeding (PPB) program for rice in eastern India, targeted at a range of ecosystems. Only a few crosses with large populations were used. Most resources were used on selection by farmers among progeny bulks grown on a research station, but farmers also selected within bulk populations on their fields. Farmers (both male and…
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Informe de actividades realizadas para el proyecto PNR-CIAT en el departamento del Meta, periodo junio-diciembre 1990
International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT)
https://hdl.handle.net/10568/55091
Abstract
The cassava team in the department of Meta was strengthened. An outstanding activity was the promotion of the project in different areas of the department; San Juan de Arama was found to have great potential for agroindustrial projects. Successful trials were carried out with fresh cassava conservation…
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Tendencias de algunos productos agropecuarios básicos escogidos
International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT)
https://hdl.handle.net/10568/55232
Publication year
1991
Authors
Seré Rabé, Carlos
Sanint, Luis Roberto
Grisley, W
Rivas Ríos, Libardo
Cock, James H.
Best, R.
Full Citation
Seré Rabé, Carlos; Sanint, Luis Roberto; Grisley, William;…
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Pasturas sostenibles basadas en leguminosas
International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT)
https://hdl.handle.net/10568/55050
Publication year
1991
Authors
International Center for Tropical Agriculture
Full Citation
Pasturas sostenibles basadas en leguminosas. 1991. In: Centro Internacional de Agricultura Tropical. Programa de Pastos Tropicales: Informe Anual 1990. CIAT, Cali, CO. p. 25-1-25-17. (Documento de…
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Produccion artesanal de semilla de frejol (P. vulgaris L.)
International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT)
https://hdl.handle.net/10568/82148
Abstract
Information is given on a small-scale bean seed production project in Ecuador, Peru, and Bolivia as to responsible institutions and technicians, duration, background, justification, objectives, methodology, activity chronogram, description of activities and distribution of responsibilities, expected products and results, and budget by country. (CIAT…
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Coupled social and ecological outcomes of agricultural intensification in Costa Rica and the future of biodiversity conservation in tropical agricultural regions
Bioversity International (Bioversity International)
https://hdl.handle.net/10568/68245
Publication year
2015
Authors
Shaver, I.
Chain Guadarrama, Adina
Cleary, K.A.
Sanfiorenzoa, A.
Santiago Garcia, R.J.
Finegan, B.…
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Algunos elementos claves para el establecimiento de un proyecto integrado de yuca
International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT)
https://hdl.handle.net/10568/82132
Abstract
Integrated cassava projects are analyzed by depicting topics that project administrators must bear in mind while planning and implementing integrated cassava projects, whose mission is to catalyze a series of institutional interventions with the objective of improving farmer income and generating the socioeconomic development of a region…
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El cultivo de la yuca en Colombia
International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT)
https://hdl.handle.net/10568/82076
Abstract
Different aspects of cassava cultivation are described, namely agroclimatic description of thermal belts, area, production, yields, production systems on the Atlantic Coast, var., and uses. The socioeconomic, social, and cultural factors limiting cassava production are listed. The objectives of the cassava plant breeding program of the Instituto Colombiano Agropecuario are indicated; 3…
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El contexto del desarrollo
International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT)
https://hdl.handle.net/10568/82120
Abstract
Development models are outlined to shed light on cassava's potential to generate economic growth. Since small cassava producers are to a large extent marginalized from the development process in Latin America, the CIAT cassava program has tried to define development strategies that are clearly oriented toward the poorer segments of the rural population, while contributing whenever…
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Calidad de las raices de yuca y factores que intervienen en ella
International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT)
https://hdl.handle.net/10568/82090
Abstract
The most important quality factors are identified for each end use given to cassava (human consumption, animal consumption, starch production). Information available on the effects of harvest time, plant age, soil/climatic factors, and abiotic factors (pests and diseases) on cassava quality parameters is reviewed. Future areas of research are also…
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Plan Sierra, República Dominicana: Una experiencia de ecodesarrollo en laderas tropicales
International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT)
https://hdl.handle.net/10568/82108
Publication year
1991
Authors
Adames, Inmaculada
Santos, Blas
Full Citation
Adames, Inmaculada; Santos, Blas. 1991. Plan Sierra, República Dominicana: Una experiencia de ecodesarrollo en laderas…
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Bean production and the constraints to production in the highlands areas of Uganda
International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT)
https://hdl.handle.net/10568/82133
Abstract
The bean producing highland areas of Uganda include the Kabale Mountains and foothills, Mount Elgon, and the southwestern volcanic mountains and foothills of the Rwenzori range. The major constraints to bean production in the highland areas include land degradation, crop diseases and pests, weeds, unavailability of labour, and poor…
