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CIAT in Focus
2004-2005

Getting a Handle on High-Value Agriculture

Contents

Getting a Handle on High-Value Agriculture

• Helping small farmers cash in on the global appetite for high-value products: Director general's message
• On the road to high-value production: Linking tropical farmers to new markets

Research-for-Development Highlights: Stories about Progress toward a more Competitive and Sustainable Agriculture

• “Smart” fertilizers and nitrogen-efficient crops
• Integrating folk and formal soil ecology
• Estimating future health gains from biofortified crops
• Strategies for seed security during African emergencies
• Fighting food insecurity through agroenterprise development in Haiti
• Combining disease resistance with consumer tastes in cassava
• Participatory rice research: An entry point for crop diversification
• Prize-winning collaboration to protect plantain
• Indigenous agroforestry: A bright spot in land management
• Building an arable layer of soil in the savannas

Multiplying the Benefits of Tropical Fruits