Maize in Eastern and Southern Africa: 'seeds' of success in retrospect
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- P. K. Thornton
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- Ashish Manandhar
- H. Groote
- P. Milindi
- T. Jayne
- S. Kimenju
- U. Morawetz
Citations in the corpus
- Maize Revolutions in Sub-Saharan Africa (2011, background): “Episodes of successful maize breeding and adoption in Eastern and Southern Africa have been reviewed in detail by Smale and Jayne (2003) and Lynam (2010).”
- Institutional and technological innovation: Understanding agricultural adaptation to climate change in Nepal (2012, background): “In East and Southern Africa, technological innovation in maize led to the development of high-quality crop needed to provide smallholder farmers with high-yielding varieties (Smale & Jayne, 2003).”
- Estimating consumer willingness to pay for food quality with experimental auctions: the case of yellow versus fortified maize meal in Kenya: H. De Groote et al. / Agricultural Economics xx (2010) 1-16 (2010, background): “A major factor in this productivity increase was the development of improved maize varieties (Harrison, 1970; Smale and Jayne, 2003), such as the white hybrids released in Kenya in the 1960s that spread quickly among small- and large-scale farmers (Hassan, Njoroge, Njore, et al.”
- Croppers to livestock keepers: livelihood transitions to 2050 in Africa due to climate change (2009, background): “For example, there have been periods during the history of maize breeding in East and southern Africa when yield growth rates have been sustained at nearly 5% per year over several years (Smale and Jayne, 2003).”
- Working Paper No. 13. Seeds and Subsidies: The Political Economy of Input Programmes in Malawi (2011, background): “Smallholder farmers have traditionally expressed preference for flint maize varieties because they have a better proportion of hard starch to granules, a higher proportion of flour to grain extraction rate and their harder grains protect them from weevils (Smale and Jayne 2003).”
- An Overview of the Post-Harvest Grain Storage Practices of Smallholder Farmers in Developing Countries (2018, background): “The favorable capacities of metal silos are 550 kg and 820 kg for most families in developing countries, which corresponds to the annual grain consumption of an average family of 5–6 members [84,93,94].”