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Developing and disseminating stress tolerant maize for sustainable food security in Eastern and Central Africa
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| Coordinating organisation: | International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center |
| Description: | Goal: Enhanced food security and improved human nutrition for resource-poor farming families and consumers Outputs: - Higher and more stable maize yields for the farmers in the ECA ecologies through the use of stress tolerant and nutritionally enhanced quality protein maize (QPM) cultivars - More efficient breeding and selection strategies for stress tolerance and a better understanding of the underlying physiological basis and gene control of these traits with special emphasis on nitrogen-use efficiency. |
| Budget (in &euro): | 1200000 |
| Start: | 2002-01-01 |
| End: | 2005-08-01 |
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| ARD-theme: | plant production food technology & human nutrition |
| Target country: | Ethiopia Germany Kenya Mexico Tanzania Uganda |
| Commodity: | plant products (agroforest) |
| Activity: | research |
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| Donor organisations: | 1 |
| Participating organisations: | 5 |
| Programmes funding: | 1 |
| Last editing: | 2006-05-18 12:23:28 |