ii CIMMYT (www.cimmyt.mx or www.cimmyt.cgiar.org) is an internationally funded, nonprofit scientific research and training organization. Headquartered in Mexico, the Center works with agricultural research institutions worldwide to improve the productivity, profitability, and sustainability of maize and wheat systems for poor farmers in developing countries. It is one of 16 similar centers supp...

1 Applied Microbiology and Molecular Biotechnology Research Group, Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics, Democritus University of Thrace, 68100 Alexandroupolis, Greece 2 Department of Food and Nutritional Sciences, University of Reading, Reading RG6 6AD, UK 3Department of Food Studies and Environmental Health, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Malta, Msida MSD 2080, Malta 4 Inst...

1 School of Biotechnology, SK University of Agricultural Sciences and Technology of Jammu, Jammu, India, Department of Botany, Jamia Hamdard University, New Delhi, India, National Research Centre on Plant Biotechnology, Indian Agricultural Research Institute, New Delhi, India, 4 Reproduction and Developmental Biology, Institute of Plant Genetics and Biotechnology, Slovak Academy of Science, Nit...

FAO has as its mandate the raising of levels of nutrition and standards of living and ensuring humanity's freedom from hunger by promoting sustainable agricultural development and alleviating poverty. FAO is dedicated to promoting agriculture, nutrition, forestry, fisheries and rural development to achieve the World Food Summit goal of eradicating hunger. FAO provides advice and assistance to o...

Investigation of food and feeding of fishes has traditionally been an important field of activity in fisheries biology, but it is one in which there are great difficulties in correlating the results with the research made in the other fields (FAO, 1974). Investigations of the food of the fish cannot be considered in isolation but have to be discussed in relation to the whole marine environment,...

This article assesses the impact of economic structural programs on the agricultural activities of women's groups in Cameroon, and explores women's ways of coping with the reduction in individual and family income and the loss of public services. It examines the role of 25 women's groups in both rural and urban areas of Cameroon's northwest and southwest provinces in a study conducted from Apr...

A. Defining gender “Gender refers not to male and female, but to masculine and feminine that is, to qualities or characteristics that society ascribes to each sex. People are born female or male, but learn to be women and men. Perceptions of gender are deeply rooted, vary widely both within and between cultures, and change over time. But in all cultures, gender determines power and resources fo...

Email: [email protected] Let’s start with the deniable truth—at present sustainable forestry is rare or localized. This is apparent when looking at global scales but also at regional and local scales. Globally, deforestation and land conversion continue. There is less forest each year (-5.2 million ha yr-1), and conversion of frontier (primary, or ancient) forests to second growth forests of shorter ...

This study set out to analyses rice total factor productivity in Nigeria ecological zones and the growth trend from 1996 to 2010. Statistical information on domestic and imported quantities of rice was obtained for 15 years (1996 to 2010) from the AGROSTAT system of the statistical division of the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), Federal Ministry of Agriculture statistical bulletins, Ce...