Plant breeding for nutrition-sensitive agriculture: An appraisal of developments in plant breeding

Food Security

Volumn 5, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 693-707

  Christinck, Anja ^a   Weltzien, Eva ^b  

^a Agricultural Communication and Extension   (Germany)

^b INTERNATIONAL CROPS RESEARCH INSTITUTE FOR THE SEMI ARID TROPICS ICRISAT   (Mali)

Author keywords

Adaptation; Agrobiodiversity; Food security; Impact; Nutrition; Plant breeding

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL ECOSYSTEM; AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTION; FOOD SECURITY; INTEGRATED APPROACH; NUTRITION; PLANT BREEDING; TECHNOLOGY DIFFUSION;

EID: 84886685062     PISSN: 18764517     EISSN: 18764525     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12571-013-0288-2     Document Type: Article

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