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A Checklist of Academic Theses Produced with
Support from CIMMYT
CONTENTS
Foreword
Country codes
Availability of
documents
Acknowledgements
Theses listed by country and
university :
Index
by author
FOREWORD
Throughout its history since 1966, CIMMYT
has sought to enhance the human resources available for agricultural research related to
its own objectives. One method has been to organize training courses, either at CIMMYT
itself or in the countries with which the Center collaborates. Another method has been to
help candidates to study for professional qualifications or higher degrees
at appropriate
universities. In these academic studies, two main cohorts can be defined:
- Students from developing countries who show
promise of achieving academic recognition either in their own countries or in advanced
programs in the more developed countries. For these, CIMMYT's support may be financial
and/or in providing facilities and guidance for thesis-research projects.
- Students from more developed countries who seek
to conduct their thesis research on issues related to the food and agricultural problems
of developing countries. For these, CIMMYT provides access to its own research resources
and/or to those of the national programs with which the Center cooperates.
This Checklist
identifies 919 theses presented at 173 academic institutions located in 46 countries;
they were the work of 842 scientists from 77 countries. Here are the initial data that would be
needed for any impact study or evaluation of CIMMYT’s involvement in academic
training; however, the compiler believes that other eligible theses are still to be
recovered.
Under what conditions is a thesis
eligible for this list? The compiler needed to develop a clear definition
of eligibility, one that he could apply consistently to both new and old theses. He
realized that he would have to depend entirely on what had been written by the author of a
thesis (secondary sources of information would not be consistent over time and for
different regions of the world), and he was guided by two criteria: 1) that CIMMYT had to
be involved, as an institution, in supporting the thesis research, and 2) that the
author of the thesis had to have been aware that the support was coming from CIMMYT. The
eligibility rule was then written as follows:
- CIMMYT must be named, and its support - either
financial or through the use of its research resources - must be recorded in the thesis
itself or in a journal article based on the thesis.
An acknowledgement to CIMMYT for the use of its
seeds or its library is not sufficient to make a thesis eligible; nor is an acknowledgment
to a member of CIMMYT's staff, whether for scientific counselling, for moral support, or
for serving on the thesis committee (asesor intelectual).
In practice, the eligibility rule has permitted
the compiler to make clear yes/no decisions in almost all cases; this, unfortunately, has
been at the cost of omitting a number of theses for which individual members of CIMMYT
staff had invested considerable personal effort.
Theses are listed under the names of the
universities to which they were submitted, and the universities are grouped by countries.
The entry for each thesis begins with a prefix of the form BE-UCL 1992 DUVEILLER D r
where BE is the country code, UCL is an acronym for the academic
institution, 1992 is the date of the thesis, and DUVEILLER is the principal
surname of its author; next comes a designator for the academic level of the thesis, thus
B = Bachelor or a basic professional
qualification (Licenciatura, Ingeniero Agrónomo)
M = Master or Diplôme d’études approfondies, Diplomarbeit
D = Doctor
H = Habilitationsschrift
Finally the type of CIMMYT support is indicated
by r (research resources) and/or f (financial). Theses are then listed in
the alphanumeric sequence of their prefixes.
A
country code is put after the full name of the author to indicate nationality or place of
birth; the code is in normal type (for example MX) if the nationality is stated in the
thesis, and in italics (MX) if it was inferred or obtained from another source.
Many authors write journal articles based on
their thesis research. Such articles are listed here in a different type after the entry
for the thesis itself. If an article is co-authored by a CIMMYT scientist, that person's
name is marked with an asterisk(*).
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COUNTRY CODES
We use the codes of the International
Standards Organization (ISO):
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AVAILABILITY OF DOCUMENTS
Entries for theses and articles are preceded by
a bullet (•) if the documents are available for consultation by users of the CIMMYT
library. Other interested persons are advised to apply first to their own libraries;
wherever possible, we have given AGRIS numbers to assist those who use these numbers for
filing their collections of documents. Librarians unable to meet the needs of their
clients are invited - as a last resort - to contact CIMMYT's library for copies of
individual items from this list.
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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
It would not be possible to name all those
CIMMYT colleagues - at headquarters and in regional offices - who drew my attention to
particular theses, or photocopied pages, or allowed me to rummage in their personal
libraries. But special thanks must go to Gregorio Martínez for his wise
counsel and formidable memory. The staff of CIMMYT’s
Training Office, led by Gilberto Hernández and more recently by Petr Kosina,
have given me access to their records and patiently responded to my many requests; and I owe
some of the entries in this list to Gilberto’s persistent efforts to contact former
CIMMYT fellows and to Petr’s
scouting for stray theses in the course of his travels.
Outside CIMMYT, I must first thank the library
staff of the Universidad Autónoma de Chapingo and of the Colegio de Postgraduados: they
kindly allowed me to comb their collections and identify those of their theses that were
eligible for this compilation.
Through the Internet, we were able to search the
catalogs of university libraries in the United States; their librarians replied to every
one of my e-mail requests for photocopies of particular pages. And we had remarkable
cooperation from many thesis supervisors and librarians, some of whom helped on multiple
occasions and, in some cases, even told me of eligible theses that had not shown up in our
searches of CIMMYT’s own records. I hope my many other cooperators will not be
offended if I single out a few for special mention:
-Leonor B Gregorio, University of the
Philippines
-Warren Kronstad and Susan Wheeler, Oregon State University
-Jim Lewis, University of Adelaide
-Nihad Maliha, International Center for Agricultural Research in the Dry Areas
-Harold Mickleson and Karen King, University of Minnesota
-Benjamin Moreno, North Dakota State University
-Cathérine Patard, CIRAD Montpellier
-Bill Raun, Oklahoma State University
-Margaret Smith, Wally Olsen and Greg Lawrence, Cornell University
-Evangelina Villegas, Mexico City
-Clyde Wassom, Kansas State University
To these, to all the others, I offer my
thanks... and most particularly to Lucia Segura C., who maintained the database and the
documents and who conducted many of our Internet searches. JW.
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