Seeds and synergies : innovating rural development in China / cedited by Song Yiching and Ronnie Vernooy.

The many connections that "seeds" have or can lead to for improving rural livelihoods and quality of life are fascinating and worth in-depth examination. Norman Uphoff, Cornell University Policy makers and plant breeders should read this! Janice Jiggins, Wageningen University & Research Centre Farme...

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Corporate Author: International Development Research Centre (Canada)
Other Authors: Yiching, Song
Vernooy, Ronnie, 1963-
Language:English
Published: Ottawa [Ont.] : Practical Action Publishing : International Development Research Centre, [2010], ©2010.
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Physical Description:1 online resource (xviii, 136 pages) : illustrations, 1 map)
Format: Electronic eBook

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505 0 |a Searching for synergy / Song Yiching and Ronnie Vernooy -- Maize and the formal agricultural research and development system : evolution, challenges and alternatives / Zhang Shihuang, Huang Kaijian and Song Yiching -- Farmers' changing livelihood strategies in rural Guangxi / Song Yiching, Wang Xiufen, Li Jingsong, and Ronnie Vernoy -- Seeds of inspiration : breathing new life into the formal agriculutrual research and development system / Song Yiching ... et al. -- Farmer cooperation and organization : new challenges, new networks, new identities / Yang Huan, with Gao Xiaowei and Li Jingsong -- Changing rural development in China / Ronnie Vernooy and Song Yiching. 
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