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 …

precipitates level, climate, culture technologies, and hybrid genetic potential of it is cultivated. So in the case of maize, these …

feed, in industry, and as a product for export activities. For these reasons, maize occupies more than one third of the … country's arable land. Maize is a cereal crop with multiple and distinctive phyto-techical and biological peculiarities, of …

the hypothesis that the introduction of maize increased population density and Trans-Atlantic slave exports in precolonial … Africa. We find robust empirical support for these predictions. We also find little evidence to suggest maize increased … economic growth or reduced conflict. Our results suggest that rather than stimulating development, the introduction of maize …