of the maize seed industry in Sub-Saharan Africa. This summary takes a circumspect view of technical change in maize … production. Adoption of improved seed has continued to rise gradually, now representing an estimated 44 percent of maize area in … Eastern and Southern Africa (outside South Africa), and 60 percent of maize area in West and Central Africa. Use of fertilizer …

increase its maize exports to other countries. If global maize production is lower than usual due to supply shocks in major … exporting regions, Tanzania may be able to export more maize at higher prices, even if it also experiences below … partners' usual import sources. Future climate predictions suggest that some of Tanzania's trading partners will experience …

role of risk and uncertainty, this paper empirically estimates the profitability of fertilizer use for maize production in …Inorganic fertilizer use across Sub-Saharan Africa is generally considered to be low. Yet, this belief is predicated on … Nigeria. The analysis finds that inorganic fertilizer use in Nigeria is not as low as conventional wisdom suggests. Low …

following several years of high food prices, concerted policy efforts to intensify fertilizer and hybrid seed use, and increased … improved technologies, particularly improved seed, fertilizers and other agro-chemicals, machinery, and irrigation. Yet …

Farm-gate buying by small itinerant buyers is the dominant mode of primary marketing in Tanzania's maize market. This … paper estimates the effect of household distance to market on maize farm-gate prices, and the extent to which seasonally …

indicative examples of how resource-management technologies can supplement seed-fertilizer technologies to speed an African Green … and shortest path to meet rising food needs. Using examples from farmers' maize and rice fields, and comparisons with Asia …

While the economic returns to using chemical fertilizer in Africa can be large, application rates are low. This study … that while fertilizer markets are not altogether missing in rural Ethiopia, high transport costs, unfavorable climate … promote or impede effective fertilizer markets differs among locations, making it difficult to find a single production …

another avenue toward achieving the same goal. The results in this paper suggest the two are related. Fertilizer use and maize … to use more fertilizer has been a key tactic. Closing the productivity gap between male and female farmers has been …

technologies for fear of the welfare consequences if shocks result in poor harvests. Building on an explicit model, this is …, but also the possibly low consumption outcomes when harvests fail, discourage the application of fertilizer. The lack of …