assessing the determinants of access to trainings on PHL management among maize farmers in Uganda. Primary data were drawn from … trainings were unawareness of the PHL trainings and inaccessibility of the training centers. Farm size, group membership, maize …Post-harvest losses (PHL) reported in maize production put Sub-Saharan African countries at higher risks of food …

present the results of testing seeds along the maize supply chain in Uganda for purity, germination and genetic similarity. We …

rich dataset of 16 series of wholesale maize prices between 2000 and 2008 for Kenya, Tanzanian and Uganda. Distance is …This analysis employs cointegration methods and semiparametric regression in order to assess the integration of maize …

Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT) with national agricultural research systems in Ethiopia, Kenya, Tanzania, and … Uganda from 1996-1999. The authors found that technology adoption is taking place across Eastern Africa but considerable …. Finally, the paper suggests that maize and wheat breeding research should be made more relevant to the preferences and …

maize and beans among 16key markets. We study weekly price data from the first week of 2000 to the last week of2003 from … of communication based on DAGs. We find that markets are more efficient inexchanging information on maize than beans …. Communication of data is mostly betweenmarkets in eastern, western, and central parts of Uganda. Overall, markets are very slowin …

Banana is a staple crop in Uganda. Ugandans have the highest per capita consumption of cooking bananas in the world … (Clarke 2003). However, banana production in Uganda is limited by several productivity con¬straints, such as insects … long term. Uganda formally initi¬ated its short-term approach in the early 1990s; it involves the collection of both local …

In this chapter, we analyze the farm-market price spreads of maize in Kenya and Uganda to examine how agricultural … the market price at the nearest maize market. We find that the farm-market price spread of maize is about 15 and 33 … percent of the market price in Kenya and Uganda, respectively. In both countries, the price spread increases by 2 percentage …

general. In 2008, the National Biosafety Committee of Uganda approved the guidelines for implementing con¬fined trials, which …