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Is Older Better? Maize Hybrid Change on Household Farms in Kenya
Smale, Melinda; Olwande, John - Department of Agricultural, Food and Resource … - 2011
Kenya has been recognized globally as maize success story since the 1970s. Released on the eve of independence, Kenya’s first maize hybrid diffused faster than did hybrids in the U.S Corn Belt during the 1930s-1940s. In recent decades, policy researchers have lamented that earlier gains in...
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Smallholder Heterogeneity and Maize Market Participation in Southern and Eastern Africa: Implications for Investment Strategies to Increase Marketed Food Staple Supply
Mather, David; Boughton, Duncan; Jayne, Thomas S. - Department of Agricultural, Food and Resource … - 2011
when they receive higher prices for their surplus marketed output, while lower retail food prices decrease the cost of … living for both rural and urban households. Hence, these objectives figure prominently in Comprehensive Africa Agriculture … Development Programme (CAADP) investment plans and the United States (U.S.) Feed The Future initiative. …
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The Impacts of Trade Barriers and Market Interventions on Maize Price Predictability: Evidence from Eastern and Southern Africa
Chapoto, Antony; Jayne, Thomas S. - Department of Agricultural, Food and Resource … - 2009
There is continuing debate in east and southern Africa about the effects of food market reform on the welfare of small …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008555519
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Assessment of Alternative Maize Trade and Market Policy Interventions in Zambia
Govereh, Jones; Jayne, Thomas S.; Chapoto, Antony - Department of Agricultural, Food and Resource … - 2008
The economic reforms in maize marketing and trade policies implemented during the 1990s have been highly controversial, and there remains a lack of solid empirical investigation on the impacts of these reforms on national food security, price stability and rural income growth. This study aims to...
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Potential for Intra-Regional Maize Trade in Southern Africa: an Analysis for Zambia at the Sub-National Level
Haggblade, Steven; Jayne, Thomas S.; Tschirley, David L.; … - Department of Agricultural, Food and Resource … - 2008
in Zambia. It reviews these general prospects within the maize economy of southern Africa. Given the important regional …
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Maize Market Sheds in Eastern and Southern Africa. Report 1. Country Annexes
Aliguma, Lucy; Ashimogo, Gasper; Mwale, Geoffrey S.; … - Department of Agricultural, Food and Resource … - 2008
, Strengthening Food Security in Sub-Saharan Africa through Trade Liberalization and Regional Integration …
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Maize Market Sheds in Eastern and Southern Africa. Report 1
Govereh, Jones; Haggblade, Steven; Nielson, Hunter; … - Department of Agricultural, Food and Resource … - 2008
Security in Sub-Saharan Africa through Trade Liberalization and Regional Integration …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008456989
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Smallholder Household Maize Production and Marketing Behavior in Zambia and Its Implications for Policy.
Zulu, Ballard; Jayne, Thomas S.; Beaver, Margaret - Department of Agricultural, Food and Resource … - 2007
The ability of agricultural policy makers to promote national development objectives requires an accurate and reasonably current picture of what crops farmers grow, what they eat, the importance of various crops in their incomes, and how they spend their money. In Zambia’s case, there is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008457001