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Biblioteca(s): 	Embrapa Mandioca e Fruticultura; Embrapa Rondônia; Embrapa Roraima.	
Data corrente: 	27/06/1996	
Data da última atualização: 	14/08/2009	
Autoria: 	SIMARSKI, L.; ATKINSON, K. CHATER, S.	
Título: 	Working with farmers in Cameroon and Rwanda; new strategies to improve staple food crops.	
Ano de publicação: 	1992	
Fonte/Imprenta: 	Ibadan, Nigeria: International Institute of Tropical Agriculture, 1992	
Páginas: 	32p.	
Idioma: 	Inglês	
Conteúdo: 	Better varieties of root and tuber crops, and improved methods of growing them, could help significantly to ease Africa's growing food shortage. Teo contrasting countries, Cameroon and Rwanda, have begun to raise production of roots and tubers to ffed their swelling populations. Through their innovative research strategies they have successfully sown the results of research in farmer's fields, furnishing valuable lessons for other African countries facing similar problems. For may years, agricultural research neglected the root crops that are essential subsistence staples across tropical Africa. Scientific attention focused instead on increasing the production of cash and export crops, bypassing those grown for food. Even among food crops, cereals and legumestook research priority over roots and tubers. At last, however, root crops such as cassava (Manihot esculenta), sweet potato (Ipomoea batatas), yams (Discorea spp.), and cocoyams (Colocasia spp. and Xanthosoma spp.) have begun to benefit from scientific improvement. Farmers of some of Cameroon's most isolated plateaus and Rwanda's most densely populated vallwys are now growing new varieties, which their countries' researchers have developed in order to ensure more reliable harvests.	
Palavras-Chave: 	Agricultura Tropical; Batata-doce; Camarões; Cará; Culturas Alimentares; Hortaliças; Pesquisa Participativa; Ruanda; Sweet popato; Variedades.	
Thesagro: 	Agricultura; Inhame; Mandioca; Pesquisa; Taioba.	
Thesaurus Nal: 	Africa; cassava.	
Categoria do assunto: 	--	
Registro original: 	Embrapa Roraima (CPAF-RR)	
Exemplares: 	CNPMF - (6996-1) - ADD - FL - -- - F8371 -  - F8371 - DIS
CPAF-RR - (7669-1) - ADD - FL - -- - AGRI-Pesquis - 047 -  - PESA - 047 - DIS
CPAF-RO - (6435-1) - ADD - FL - -- - FOL-5850 -  - FOL-5850 - DIS