This paper addresses the role of market remoteness in explaining maize price volatility in Burkina Faso. A model of … price formation is introduced to demonstrate formally that transport costs between urban and rural markets exacerbate maize … price volatility. Empirical support is provided to the proposition by exploring an unusually rich data set of monthly maize …

This paper presents a model of the Malawi maize commodity market that is developed for use as a policy analysis tool …. The model captures national and local maize market dynamics and the linkages existing within the maize market in the … food and agricultural policies. The model is a multiequation partial equilibrium model of the national maize market in …

achieving food security and poverty alleviation. Over the years, maize has become a main food security crop, widely produced and … consumed by smallholder farmers, second only to teff in terms of area. Despite the sustained growth of maize production over … the years, its yields continue to be lower than the world's average. Of the many abiotic and biotic constraints that maize …

radiation use efficiency) on maize cropping systems over Africa based on 30 years (1980-2010) of climate, soil and management … in crop management could improve the range of maize yield from 1.2 t ha-1 to 2.9 t ha-1 over the study period in Africa …. The magnitude of the yield improvement is country and scenario specific. The largest maize yield improvements were …

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 …