The impact of improved maize germplasm on poverty alleviation: the case of Tuxpeño-derived material in Mexico

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cg.coverage.countryMexicoen_US
cg.coverage.regionLatin Americaen_US
cg.coverage.regionNorthern Americaen_US
cg.coverage.regionCentral Americaen_US
cg.identifier.projectIFPRI - Archiveen_US
cg.isbn9706481311en_US
cg.isijournalISI Journalen_US
cg.placeMéxico, D.F. Méxicoen_US
cg.reviewStatusInternal Reviewen_US
dc.contributor.authorBellon, Mauricio R.en_US
dc.contributor.authorAdato, Michelleen_US
dc.contributor.authorBecerril, Javieren_US
dc.contributor.authorMindek, Dubravkaen_US
dc.date.accessioned2025-01-29T12:56:55Zen_US
dc.date.available2025-01-29T12:56:55Zen_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10568/170365en_US
dc.titleThe impact of improved maize germplasm on poverty alleviation: the case of Tuxpeño-derived material in Mexicoen_US
dcterms.abstractThis study documents how poor small-scale farmers in lowland tropical Mexico use improved maize germplasm and how this contributes to their well-being. It does this by assessing both the direct adoption of improved varieties and examining the process of their "creolization." By exposing improved varieties to their conditions and management, continually selecting seed of these varieties for replanting, and in some cases promoting their hybridization with landraces, either by design or by accident, farmers produce what they recognize as "creolized" varieties. Our key hypothesis is that poor farmers benefit from improved germplasm through creolization. Creolization provides farmers with new options, as they deliberately modify an improved technology generated by the formal research system to suit their own circumstances and needs. Different methodologies such as participatory methods, ethnography, household case studies, a household sample survey, and a collection and agronomic evaluation of maize samples were used. This study was carried out in two regions: the coast of Oaxaca and the Frailesca in the states of Oaxaca and Chiapas, two of the poorest in Mexico. While one study area is subsistence-oriented and the other commercial, in both, extreme poverty is pervasive. Maize continues to play a key role in the livelihoods of the poor in both study areas.en_US
dcterms.accessRightsLimited Accessen_US
dcterms.bibliographicCitationBellon, Mauricio R.; Adato, Michelle; Becerril, Javier; Mindek, Dubravka. 2005. The impact of improved maize germplasm on poverty alleviation: the case of Tuxpeño-derived material in Mexicoen_US
dcterms.issued2005en_US
dcterms.languageenen_US
dcterms.publisherInternational Maize and Wheat Improvement Centeren_US
dcterms.replaceshttps://ebrary.ifpri.org/digital/collection/p15738coll5/id/1636en_US
dcterms.subjectmaizeen_US
dcterms.subjectpoverty alleviationen_US
dcterms.subjectgermplasmen_US
dcterms.subjectagricultureen_US
dcterms.subjecthybridizationen_US
dcterms.subjectseed productionen_US
dcterms.subjectvarietiesen_US
dcterms.typeReporten_US

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