Maize is the staple food for most Kenyan households, and grown in almost all the farming systems. Due to diminishing … aims to provide empirical evidence on the links between efficiency in maize production and access to soil …-related agricultural information services were more technically efficient (average technical efficiency of 90%) in maize production …

. This paper to quantifies the market and welfare impacts of trade liberalization in Kenya’s maize sector using a partial … 24 percent reduction in maize import tariffs and a complete abolition of tariffs. The simulations results suggest that … tariff reductions yield price decreases across the three market levels. The declining prices increase maize consumption but …

from both approaches show there is substantial technical, allocative and cost inefficiency in maize production and that … robust. Our results show that policies aimed at maize technology development and their timely dissemination, improvement in …

-national maize price transmission. Although the three countries are members of the community’s customs union and they each claim to … pursue maize trade without borders, their agricultural trade policies still differ, thus affecting prices and trade flows to … a rather isolated and internally fragmented island within the East African maize markets. Bilateral maize trade with …

Deficiencies of micronutrients such as vitamin A are widespread, expecially in Africa. Biofortified crops such as maize …, bred for high levels of provitamin A might offer a solution, but these crops are often bright orange, and African maize … consumers prefer white. To estimate the consumers interest in orange biofortified maize, sensory evaluations were organized in …

This paper attempts to analyze the impacts of the ‘fast track’ land reform policy on maize production in Zimbabwe … variables in 2000. This means that the model generated an artificial data set based on what the maize market would have looked … what could have been harvested in 2001, and declining by negative 80.57 % in 2007. Results showed total maize production …

Striga is an indigenous parasitic weed that attacks cereals and other crops in Africa. In maize croplands alone, Striga … to controlling the parasite was to induce herbicide resistance in maize and to coat the seed with herbicide to provide … development by the International Maize and Wheat Centre (CIMMYT), the Kenya Agricultural Research Center (KARI) and the Weizmann …

Striga hermonthica (del) Benth is threatening rural livelihoods in western Kenya where maize is the major food and cash … yield loss to Striga given high dependency on maize for livelihoods; adopt no integrated Striga control options; and live in …-scale farmers in the Striga-affected areas of western Kenya. Key words: livelihoods, maize, Striga, Kenya, Logit …

The maize milling industry is highly characterised by continuous growth in maize milling and retailing margins in real … maize market in 1997. This may be indicative of the inability of small and medium-scale maize milling enterprises (SMSMMEs …) to emerge and compete with large-scale maize millers. This paper examines the constraints faced by SMSMMEs in South …

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 …