| dc.contributor.author | Ortiz, R. |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2020-01-15T13:05:32Z |
| dc.date.available | 2020-01-15T13:05:32Z |
| dc.date.issued | 2003-04-02 |
| dc.identifier.citation | Ortiz, R. (2003). Plant breeding successes in African rural development. Plant Breeding News, 137, 3. |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12478/6722 |
| dc.description.abstract | This article reviews improvements in important southern African food crops, and it describes the social and economic effects of those improved crops. Author Rodomiro Ortiz, the acting Deputy-Director General of the International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA), says that the development and distribution of high-yielding cassava cultivars led to a 50 percent increase in average yield and a 10 percent increase in per capita output throughout Africa. Meanwhile, Ortiz says that improved maize cultivars led to about a 45 percent increase in on-farm yield gains in western and central Africa. Ortiz contends that 100 million more people in sub-Saharan Africa are able to meet their daily food requirements because of IITA-led research-for-development efforts in cassava and maize. However, Ortiz asserts that the full impact of crop improvement programs "can only be judged over a relatively long period." In addition to cassava and maize, Ortiz discusses several IITA-led improvements in yams, cooking bananas and plantains, cowpeas, and soybeans. |
| dc.language.iso | en |
| dc.subject | Rural Development |
| dc.subject | Plant Breeding |
| dc.subject | Food Security |
| dc.subject | Socioeconomic Development |
| dc.subject | Product Development |
| dc.title | Plant breeding successes in African rural development. |
| dc.type | Journal Article |
| cg.contributor.affiliation | International Institute of Tropical Agriculture |
| cg.authorship.types | CGIAR single centre |
| cg.iitasubject | Plant Breeding |
| cg.iitasubject | Livelihoods |
| cg.iitasubject | Socioeconomy |
| cg.iitasubject | Food Security |
| cg.accessibilitystatus | Limited Access |
| cg.reviewstatus | Peer Review |
