Improved seed varieties can drastically help improve the food security and livelihoods of small-scale farm families. However, an unreliable seed deployment system in eastern and southern Africa (ESA) prevents many farmers ...

The growth in high-value agriculture world-wide is driven partly by rising incomes, urbanization, and perhaps changing preferences. As income rises, the share of the food budget allocated to starchy staples declines relative ...

Climate change and increasing climatic variability have raised widespread concern, although the implications of these trends are not well understood. Even so, it is already possible to envision some of the difficulties ...

The Maize Program comprises three subprograms, each focusing on a major maize production ecology (the lowland tropics, the subtropics and midaltitude regions, and the highlands), plus specialized research units (entomology, ...

Acid soils account for some four-fifths of agricultural lands in South America and two-fifths - more than 183 million hectares - in Brazil alone. Normal maize varieties yield as little as 0.5 t/ha of grain on even moderately ...