Using a unique dataset of maize samples and consumer interviews form Eastern Kenya, we find that the presence of the … fungal contaminant aflatoxin is negatively associated with the use of maize flour for food. While food remains the most … common use of maize regardless of the presence of the toxin, contaminated maize is relatively more likely to be used for the …

due to publication bias. Cointegration is more prevalent for maize market pairs and less prevalent for rice market pairs … maize prices. In a subsequent meta-regression analysis we measure how much of the variation in the samples of PT estimates …

Tanzania’s National Bureau of Statistics (NBS), show considerable diversity across the country. Maize (corn) dominates the … diets in the surplus-maize-producing regions. Households in the maize-deficit regions in the north favor other sources of …

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 …