of these programs. This article considers one such program, the Zambian Food Reserve Agency (FRA), which purchases maize … from smallholder farmers at a pan-territorial price that typically exceeds maize market prices in surplus production areas … effects of the FRA's maize marketing activities on smallholder farm household welfare. Results suggest that FRA activities …

Six pure lines of maize were tested in a randomized complete block design with three replicationunder irrigated and …

economically insignificant for international market pairs. Maize price pairs are less often cointegrated compared to rice prices …

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 …

This study was carried out to determine the welfare effects of improved maize technology in Buruku Local Government … Area of Benue State, Nigeria. The study also examined the determinants of the adoption of improved maize technology …. The OLS results show that adoption of improved maize varieties is positively and significantly related to household …

Maize is a major staple food in Sub-Saharan Africa. Monthly maize prices in Tanzania are analyzed since the country is … an important maize producer and exporter in East Africa. We analyze price transmission between the five most important … urban regions of Tanzania between 2000 and 2008 which correspond to major maize production or consumption areas. We propose …