The New Seed Initiative for Maize in Southern Africa (NSIMA) project, funded by The Rockefeller Foundation and the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation, began its operations in 2005. This project intends, over the ...

The New Seed Initiative for Maize in Southern Africa (NSlMA) Project has completed the first year of the second phase of funding from the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation. This phase of the project supported a ...

The International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT), by the abbreviation of its Spanish name) is an international, non-profit, agricultural research and training center with its headquarters in Mexico. Its mission ...

Maize is the most important staple cereal grain in eastern and Central Africa (ECA) providing more than half the daily calorie and protein intakes of most of the population. It is largely used directly for human food but ...

Numerous types of both conventional (based only on inbred lines) and nonconventional (where at least one parent is not an inbred line) maize hybrids may be produced. Conventional hybrid types include single crosses, three ...

This publication provides a comprehensive and detailed review of the major maize research and technology dissemination advances and challenges in Ethiopia since the First National Maize Workshop of Ethiopia was held on May ...

The witchweed Striga decimates maize, millet, sorghum, upland rice and Napier throughout sub-Sahara Africa. From the high plateau of East Africa where peasant farmers struggle to survive on tiny fields of maize, to the ...