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Climate change impacts and potential benefits of heat-tolerant maize in South Asia
(Springer, 2017)
Monitoring of genetic gain in crop genetic improvement programs is necessary to measure the efficiency of the program. Periodic measurement of genetic gain also allows the efficiency of new technologies incorporated into ...
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Impact of CGIAR maize germplasm in Sub-Saharan Africa
(Elsevier, 2023)
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Potential benefits of drought and heat tolerance for adapting maize to climate change in tropical environments
(Elsevier, 2018)
Climate change and population growth pose great challenges to the food security of the millions of people who grow maize in the already fragile agricultural systems in tropical environments. There is an urgent need for ...
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Seeding Eastern Africa’s maize revolution in the post-structural adjustment era: a review and comparative analysis of the formal maize seed sector
(Wageningen Academic Publishers, 2018)
Improved maize seed is instrumental to deliver an Asian-style ‘green revolution’ for Africa. The paper reviews and makes a comparative analysis of the maize (corn) seed sector and its evolution in Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda ...
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Multi‐site bundling of drought tolerant maize varieties and index insurance
(Wiley, 2020)
Drought Tolerant Maize Varieties (DTMV) and Rainfall Index Insurance (RII) are potential complements, though with limited empirical basis. We employ a multivariate spatial framework to investigate the potential for bundling ...
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Impacts of drought-tolerant maize varieties on productivity, risk, and resource use: evidence from Uganda
(Elsevier, 2019)
Weather variability is an important source of production risk for rainfed agriculture in developing countries. This paper evaluates the impacts of the adoption of drought-tolerant maize varieties on average maize yield, ...
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Maize stover use and sustainable crop production in mixed crop-livestock systems in Mexico
(Elsevier, 2013)
Mixed crop-livestock farming systems prevail in Mexico - typically rain-fed and smallholder systems based on maize and ruminants and spanning diverse agro-ecologies. Maize grain is the key Mexican staple produced for home ...