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 …

This study compared costs and returns between stacked Bt/Ht GM and non-GM maize and identified determinants of GM maize … adoption in Southern Vietnam. Data were from the 2016 Summer-Autumn cropping season, one year after GM maize was commercialised … in Vietnam. The main economic benefits of GM compared to non-GM maize included increases in yield, revenue and profit by …

maize markets. The simulation is conducted using a multiequation partial equilibrium model of the national maize market …, which is sequentially linked via a price-linkage equation to local rural maize markets. The model accounts for market … strategies have negative and sustained impacts on maize yields, production, and acreage allocated to maize over the simulation …