Gender and Practice
Gender and Practice

Author: Marcia Texler Segal

Publisher: Emerald Group Publishing

Published: 2019-11-22

Total Pages: 294

ISBN-13: 183867389X

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This book has an Open Access chapter. Throughout the volume, expert practitioners situate their real-world experiences in the broader intersectional framework employed by their academic colleagues, offering policy makers, students, scholars, practitioners, and activists concrete examples of how and why gender is central to development

Population and Food in the Early Twenty-first Century
Population and Food in the Early Twenty-first Century

Author: Nurul Islam

Publisher: Intl Food Policy Res Inst

Published: 1995-01-01

Total Pages: 262

ISBN-13: 9780896293311

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The IFPRI roundtable, with its focus on the prospects of a long-term balance between food demand and supply, provided a link between the two conferences, as the adequacy of food supply at affordable prices for future populations is a crucial element in a strategy designed to alleviate poverty and accelerate growth, in the context of an increasing population.

Agricultural Research at the Crossroads
Agricultural Research at the Crossroads

Author: Bo M I Bengtsson

Publisher: CRC Press

Published: 2019-09-17

Total Pages: 283

ISBN-13: 042952661X

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It is necessary to integrate field data relevant to policy with a global overview with up-to-date information for synthesis into scenarios and a vision of how future research and development in agriculture can best help those who are most needy and have little access to productive resources. The overall task is a huge challenge for policy-makers and the agricultural research establishment. It is also of concern in teaching agricultural students to be able to respond to future challenges. This publication is an attempt to stimulate discussion on future options of research policy, suggesting changes of agricultural R&D for societal development in accordance with the Millennium Development Goals.

Insect Resistant Maize
Insect Resistant Maize

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Publisher: CIMMYT

Published: 1997

Total Pages: 316

ISBN-13: 9789686923797

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Mechanisms and bases of resistance; The genetics of resistance; Biotechnological manipulation of resistance; Advances in techniques, rearing, rating bioassays, mechanism detection; Resistance verification and utilization; Country reports.