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Guidelines for Facilitating Women’s adoption of Improved Cereal Varieties in Sex-segregated Cultures
Women in the Global South play significant roles in farming but face inequalities in access to resources, land and extension support (3,4,5). Their roles in farming cereals, often perceived as male crops, are especially ...
What works or does not work in spreading improved varieties to women (based on evidence of women benefitting through specific approaches) in context of gender-segregated cultures
The presentation presents a tool related to improving women's access to agricultural technologies in gender-segregated cultures.
International Winter Wheat Improvement Program: serving global breeding community
International Winter Wheat Improvement Program (www.iwwip.org) was established in 1986 as a cooperative project between the Government of Turkey and CIMMYT. The main objective was development of winter and facultative wheat ...
إرشادات لتسهيل تبني النساء أصناف الحبوب المحسنة في الثقافات التي تفصل بين الجنسين
تلعب النساء في جنوب الكرة الأرضية أدوارًا مهمة في الزراعة، لكنهن يواجهن عدم مساواة في الوصول إلى الموارد والأراضي ودعم الإرشاد (3،4،5). إن أدوارهن في زراعة الحبوب، التي غالبًا ما يُنظر إليها على أنها محاصيل تخص الذكور، يتم ...
Improving wheat production in the CWANA region
Wheat is the principal staple food in most countries of the Central and West Asia and North Africa (CWANA) region, accounting for 45% of the region’s per capita calorie intake with an average wheat consumption of about 200 ...
Community typology framed by normative climate for agricultural innovation, empowerment, and poverty reduction
This paper employs the concepts of gender norms and agency to advance understanding of
inclusive agricultural innovation processes and their contributions to empowerment and poverty
reduction at the village level. We present ...
Yield of chromosomally engineered durum wheat-Thinopyrum ponticum recombinant lines in a range of contrasting rain-fed environments
Introgressions of Thinopyrum ponticum 7AgL chromosome segments, spanning 23%, 28% and 40% of the distal end of durum wheat 7AL arm, were previously shown to contain multiple beneficial gene(s)/QTL for yield-related traits, ...
Lignes directrices pour faciliter l'adoption de variétés céréalières améliorées par les femmes dans les cultures sexospécifiques
Women in the Global South play significant roles in farming but face inequalities in access to resources, land and extension support (3,4,5). Their roles in farming cereals, often perceived as male crops, are especially ...
Training and Surveillance Support for Wheat Rust Diseases in Central Asia and Near East: In-Country Rust Surveillance
Through the FAO-ICARDA initiative on Training and Surveillance Support for Wheat Rust Diseases, technical backstopping, guidelines and financial support were provided to facilitate national in-country rust surveillance in ...
Wheat
Wheat is one of the most important staple crops of global food and nutritional security. The demand for wheat has been increasing substantially with the increasing human population pressure. Wheat genetic resources including ...