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output when this system was dismantled contributed to the reinstatement in 2002 of subsidies for maize seed and fertilizer …The successful development and diffusion of improved maize seed in Zambia during the 1970s–80s was a major … provision of services to maize growers, and a pan-territorial pricing scheme that was fiscally unsustainable. Declining maize …
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estimate a similar model for the adoption of improved seed in maize production. We find that access to fertilizer and seed is … of the adoption of the fertilizer-seed technology package promoted in Ethiopia using nationally representative data from … the Central Statistical Agency of Ethiopia. We estimate a double hurdle model of fertilizer use for four major cereal …
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The second of three books in IFPRI's climate change in Africa series, East African Agriculture and Climate Change: A Comprehensive Analysis examines the food security threats facing 10 of the countries that make up east and central Africa - Burundi, Democratic Republic of Congo, Eritrea, Kenya,...
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, wheat, and maize. To better understand the likely economywide effects of increases of between 12 and 14 percent in the … price and wheat import scenarios, a wheat subsidy program, and maize exports. Among the effects considered are changes in …
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€œdelivery†phase of the HarvestPlus program (2014–2018), theories of change were developed for three crop-country combinations—maize …
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This study analyzes consumer acceptance of biofortified orange maize in rural Zambia by eliciting consumers … perception of yellow maize does not affect orange maize which is well liked, (b) there is a premium for orange maize with …, and (d) product experience does not translate into lower willingness to pay for orange maize. …
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particular cereals. In this context, it reviews the policies on agricultural input such as seed, fertilizer, water, agricultural …
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, the farming of maize in East and Southern Africa, cassava across the middle belt of Africa, cotton in West Africa …
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