The economic and poverty impacts of maize research in West and Central Africa.

By A. Alene, A. Menkir, S. Ajala, B. Badu‐Apraku, A. Olanrewaju, V. Manyong, A. Ndiaye. 2009

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Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, General Agricultural and Biological Sciences

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Citations in the corpus

• Adoption of improved wheat varieties and impacts on household food security in Ethiopia (2014, background): “Some studies in West Africa using the economic surplus approach show that adoption of improved maize varieties is associated with improved household welfare (Alene et al., 2009).”
• The Impacts of Public Investment in and for Agriculture: Synthesis of the Existing Evidence (2012, background): “The country-level benefit–cost ratios range from 10 in Togo to 84 in Nigeria, and country-level rates of return range from 28 percent in Senegal to 74 percent in Nigeria (Alene et al. 2009).”
• Integrated Seed Sector Development in Africa: A Conceptual Framework for Creating Coherence Between Practices, Programs, and Policies (2012, background): “In 2006, modern maize varieties (including both hybrids and open-pollinated varieties) covered 33% of the area in Eastern Africa and 38% in Southern Africa, excluding South Africa (Mason et al. 2011), and it reached 60% in 2005 in Western Africa (Alene et al. 2009).”
• Recent Advances in Impact Analysis Methods for Ex-post Impact Assessments of Agricultural Technology: Options for the CGIAR (2010, background): “(2000), Evenson and Gollin (2003), Raitzer and Kelley (2008), Maredia and Raitzer (2010), and Alston et al. (2000). 2 This paper does not specifically address issues concerning CGIAR research on best practice or policy. 3 As Gollin (2010) says, “the current generation of improved varieties is not so”
• Evaluating the impact of improved maize varieties on food security in Rural Tanzania: Evidence from a continuous treatment approach (2014, unknown): “Alene et al. (2009) found that adoption of improved maize varieties in West and Central Africa increased from less than 5 % in the 1970s to 60 % in 2005, significantly reducing poverty. Karanja et al. (2003) also showed that the adoption of maize technologies in areas of Kenya with high agricultural”
• Maize Revolutions in Sub-Saharan Africa (2011, background): “IITA‘s budget for maize research fell from $10 m in 1988 to $5 m in 2000 (Alene et al., 2009).”
• Adoption and continued use of improved maize seeds: Case study of Central Ethiopia (2010, background): “Similarly, in sub-Saharan Africa, adoption of improved maize was indicated to have positive outcomes (Alene et al., 2009).”
• The politics of seed in Africa's green revolution: Alternative narratives and competing pathways (2011, background): “Between 1965 and 2005, 37 varieties (31 of which were OPVs) were released, with only 14 of these coming from the private sector (Alene et al. 2009).”
• The impact of agricultural cooperatives membership on the wellbeing of smallholder farmers: empirical evidence from eastern Ethiopia (2017, background): “…productivity is important for enhancing farmer livelihood, reducing rural poverty, and increasing food security (Shiferaw et al. 2014; Zeng et al. 2015; Asfaw et al. 2012; Kassie et al. 2011; Becerril and Abdulai 2010; Alene et al. 2009; Minten and Barrett 2008; Evenson and Gollin 2003).”