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Containing the Menace of Wheat Rusts: Institutionalized Interventions and Impacts
This book is the grandstand of the collaborative endeavours of diverse stakeholders in addressing the challenges of wheat production and wheat rusts in Ethiopia within the context of the international efforts across Africa ...
Rapid Deployment of Rust-resistant Wheat Varieties: ICARDA’s Experience and Lessons Learned
ICARDA in collaboration with CIMMYT and/or NARS has developed a number of multi-lateral and bilateral projects to counter the threat of stem rust and yellow rust. This paper summarizes ICARDA’s experiences and lessons ...
Accelerated Seed Multiplication for Deployment of Rust-resistant Wheat Varieties
The chapter presents the approaches, achievements and lessons learned in accelerated seed multiplication of early generation seed (breeder, pre-basic and basic) and large-scale certified seed production by NARS and public ...
Farmers' perceptions on improved bread wheat varieties and formal seed supply in Ethiopia
The paper presents smallholder farmers' perceptions on attributes of bread wheat varieties based on primary data collected from 524 households in four major wheat growing areas of Ethiopia. The results indicated high value ...
Promoting Rust-resistant Wheat Varieties and Technologies through Partnership
One of the planned components of the project was technology promotion through demonstration, popularization and on-farm seed production. This chapter documents the approaches, activities, achievements and lessons learned ...
Fast-track Variety Testing and Release of Rust-resistant Wheat Varieties
In Ethiopia, ICARDA in partnership with CIMMYT and EIAR formulated and implemented two successive projects with focus on stem and yellow rust, which complimented and reinforced each other in order to avert the risks and ...
Adoption and Impact of Rust-resistant Wheat Varieties on Productivity and Household Food Security in Ethiopia
The chapter presents the adoption and diffusion of rust resistance varieties in terms of area with simultaneous reduction in the number of farmers and area under rust susceptible wheat varieties. Furthermore, factors ...
Commercial Behavior, Varietal Preferences and Wheat Seed Markets in Ethiopia
This working paper presents the commercial behaviors in wheat seed sector, farmers' varietal preferences, and their implications on the wheat seed sector based on the primary data collected from randomly selected 524 wheat ...
Policy and Development Implications and Way Forward
Wheat rusts remain a challenge for wheat production at national, regional and global levels. Empirical evidence shows the emergence of new races and their quick spread across countries and continents with devastating ...
Rapid Deployment of Rust-Resistant Wheat Varieties in Ethiopia
Ethiopia is one of the major wheat producing countries in Africa with an estimated area of 1.7 million ha and production of 4.2 million tons at the productivity level of 2.5 ton/ha. About 4.6 million small-scale farmers ...