The Regional Maize Program (Programa Regional de Maíz, or PRM) A networks of maize researchers from nine countries and the International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT) in Mexico. With funding and guidance from ...

What are key characteristics of rural innovators? How are their experiences similar for women and men, and how are they different? To examine these questions, we draw on individual interviews with 336 rural women and men ...

In an effort to understand the diffusion of improved agricultural technologies in the developing world, researchers have long sought to measure farmers’ adoption of improved crop varieties. A number of different approaches ...

In Colombia, maize is the third crop with the largest cultivation area after coffee and rice. In spite of this, it is the country with the highest volume of imports in South America, and the seventh in the world. Maize is ...