Crop variety improvement and its effect on productivity: the impact of international agricultural research [electronic resource] Edited by R. E. Evenson, D. Gollin.
Material type: TextLanguage: English Series: CABI BooksPublisher: WallingfordUK CABI Publishing 2003Edition: 1Description: 522ppContent type:- text
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- online resource
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- Malpighiales
- tapioca plant
- Poales
- India
- People's Republic of China
- Solanum tuberosum
- Hordeum vulgare
- Threshold Countries
- South Asia
- maize
- Zea
- Oryza sativa
- barley
- Lens
- Pennisetum
- crop yield
- Papilionoideae
- green bean
- sweet sorghum
- bulrush millet
- Phaseolus
- East Asia
- potatoes
- Solanales
- Fabaceae
- Developing Countries
- Euphorbiaceae
- angiosperms
- South America
- Manihot esculenta
- Poaceae
- China
- paddy
- monocotyledons
- eukaryotes
- plant breeding
- peanuts
- Sorghum bicolor
- Arachis hypogaea
- Commonwealth of Nations
- corn
- sugar sorghum
- Oryza
- rice
- models
- Phaseolus vulgaris
- cereals
- plants
- lentils
- Zea mays
- Triticum aestivum
- Solanaceae
- Brazil
- pearl millet
- eudicots
- America
- Asia
- Triticum
- APEC countries
- commelinids
- millets
- Community of Portuguese Language Countries
- Arachis
- Manihot
- Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research
- snap bean
- Hordeum
- Lens culinaris
- manioc
- productivity
- Pennisetum glaucum
- cassava
- wheat
- Spermatophyta
- Solanum
- groundnuts
- CGIAR
- Fabales
- Latin America
- Sorghum
This volume reports on the productivity impacts of varietal improvement research conducted at a number of international centres affiliated with the Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research. Such centres have been at the forefront of a 40-year effort to breed new varieties of the world’s staple food crops. The volume is the main product of a study initiated and supported by the Impact Assessment and Evaluation Group (now Standing Panel on Impact Assessment) of the CGIAR. Descriptive data and econometric models are used to evaluate the impact of research on eleven crops and in three country case studies (Brazil, China and India).
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