Abstract The International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT) acts as a
catalyst and leader in a global maize and wheat innovation network that serves the poor in …

The potential for agricultural systems to adapt to climate change is at once both promising
and poorly understood. This chapter reviews possible producer and consumer responses to …

Throughout the world, and particularly in South Asia and sub-Saharan Africa, many of the
poorest people are farmers. Nearly 75 percent of those subsisting on $1 a day live in rural …

Zinc and iron are important micronutrients for human health for which widespread deficiency
occurs in many regions of the world including South Asia. Breeding efforts for enriching …

This paper explores the origin of the notion of “yield gap” and its use as a framing device for
agricultural policy in sub-Saharan Africa. The argument is that while the yield gap of policy …

International agricultural research has historically been an example par excellence of an
open source approach to biological research. Beginning in the 1950s and especially in the …

Rice is the staple food and provides livelihood for smallholder farmers in the coastal delta
regions of South and Southeast Asia. However, its productivity is often low because of …

A field experiment was conducted to study the growth and productivity of wheat as affected
by row spacing and direction of sowing at Rampur, Chitwan, Nepal during the 2007-2008 …

An important step towards reducing the vulnerability of wheat in Africa and Asia to the Ug99
race of the stem rust pathogen is the substitution of current susceptible varieties with …

A study was conducted to quantify the effects of terminal heat stress on yield and component
traits for two consecutive years under normal and late sown environments. Analysis of …