Empirical evidence from research on Bt maize in Kenya puts to rest most concerns raised against GMOs (not responding to …

This study examines the impact of genetically modified maize on labor, cost, and input substitutability for … smallholders in South Africa. Data was collected during the 2009- 2010 maize production season from 184 households with a total of … 212 maize plots in two regions, Hlabisa and Simdlangetsha, located in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. Producers of Roundup …

incomes among farm households in Kenya. It uses cross-sectional data collected from 379 multi-stage randomly selected … households in three provinces of Kenya. The study found that use of mobile phone-based money transfer services significantly …

advanced developing country. Complete enumeration of the Mexican maize breeding industry showed that, contrary to the … theory on IPR and a short background on the Mexican maize breeding industry. The analysis of the interviews with maize …

advanced developing country. Complete enumeration of the Mexican maize breeding industry showed that, contrary to the … theory on IPR and a short background on the Mexican maize breeding industry. The analysis of the interviews with maize …

Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) based market interventions in improving maize market efficiency in Malawi … improved maize marketing efficiency. Based on the results, the study recommends the need to increase awareness of ICT based …

, maize, provides a significant amount of organic matter, which is not the case with soybeans). A comparative analysis of the … evolution of the area planted with both soybeans and maize was made between five countries in the Americas: The United States … with maize). This “relative land allocation index” (RLAI) was calculated for the countries included in the study for the …

This paper determines the degree or extent of farmer’s risk aversion that affects sustainable maize production in … model of safety-first behaviour from a cross-sectional survey of 350 maize producers in northern Nigeria. The distribution … socioeconomic factors (e.g. age of household head), farm specific variables (e.g. proportion of income from maize) and farmers …

Bt maize in Kenya is promising biotechnology innovation for poor households. Econometric prediction from a trait … heterogeneity in maize growing environments and pest pressures, as well as the differences among farm households in terms of wealth …

seven African countries: Cameroon (maize, cowpea, sorghum), Kenya (maize, wheat), Malawi (maize), Mali (maize), Niger … (sorghum, cowpea, millet), Uganda (oilseeds), and Zambia (maize). These countries were selected because they represent a … Bureau (RDSB) to assess the impact of investments in maize research and dissemination made during the late 1970s and early …