65,000 South Asian farmers’ resilience and income sustained through drought-tolerant maize
The Heat Tolerant Maize for Asia (HTMA) project develops and disseminates heat-tolerant hybrids in 5 South Asian countries. Through a licensing model to small and medium-size seed companies, the first hybrids were released in the project's 3rd year, benefiting ca. 65,000 farmers in 4 HTMA countries with higher yields and income. Growing heat-tolerant, high-yielding maize can form part of farmers' climate change adaptation response (5, 6), which is better supported institutionally in South Asia than in East Africa (4).
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Main Author: | CGIAR Research Program on Maize |
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Format: | Case Study biblioteca |
Language: | English |
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2021-12-31
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Subjects: | climate change, farmers, maize, climate, adaptation, yields, drought, income, resilience, seeds, climate change adaptation, hybrids, africa, east africa, companies, south asia, heat, asia, model, countries, case studies, agrifood systems, rural development, |
Online Access: | https://hdl.handle.net/10568/121545 |
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