TY - JA AU - Capettini,F. TI - Versatile barley varieties help higland mexican farmers cope with globalization PY - 2002/// CY - Aleppo, Syria PB - International Center for Agricultural Research in the Dry Areas (ICARDA) KW - Barley KW - Beers KW - AGROVOC KW - Crop yield KW - Economic competition KW - Farmers KW - Malting barley KW - Planting KW - Seed production KW - Varieties KW - CIMMYT N2 - Barley production in the highlands of Mexico dates from the time of the Spanish conquest. Today, all of the barley planted in the region is used for malting to produce beer. Globalization, most notably the North American Free Trade Agreement, is prompting farmers to look for new crops, such as forage barley, which appears to offer an economically viable alternative to malt barley production UR - https://hdl.handle.net/10883/21375 T2 - ICARDA Caravan ER -