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Improved Maize Varieties and Poverty in Rural Ethiopia

his Impact Brief (No 45) is based on the study that documents the impacts of improved maize varities on household well-being and on overall rural poverty using primary data. In Ethiopia, the last four decades have seen more than 40 improved varieties of maize - including hybrids and OPVs – developed...

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Main Author: CGIAR Standing Panel on Impact Assessment
Format: Brief
Language:Inglés
Published: CGIAR Standing Panel on Impact Assessment 2014
Subjects:
income
data
production
documents
seeds
rural poverty
agricultural research
hybrids
impacts
improvement
maize
research
economics
site
varieties
adoption
ethiopia
paper
agricultural economics
collaboration
wheat
poverty
Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/10568/128889
Summary:his Impact Brief (No 45) is based on the study that documents the impacts of improved maize varities on household well-being and on overall rural poverty using primary data. In Ethiopia, the last four decades have seen more than 40 improved varieties of maize - including hybrids and OPVs – developed and released by the Ethiopian Institute of Agricultural Research (EIAR) in collaboration with the International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT). The full report will be published shortly on this site along with the SPIA foreword. The journal paper (Agricultural Economics) is available on Wiley Online Library (http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/agec.12178/abstract?campaign=wolearlyview)

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