TY  - RE
AU  - Tesfahun, G.
AU  - Langyintuo,A.S.
AU  - Mwangi,W.
TI  - Characterization of maize producing households in drought prone regions of Eastern Africa
T2  - Socioeconomics Working Paper
SN  - 978-970-648-183-2
U1  - 338.16676 
PY  - 2011///
CY  - Mexico
PB  - CIMMYT, 
KW  - Food production
KW  - Research projects
KW  - East Africa
N1  - Open Access; On-line only
N2  - Agriculture in eastern Africa is predominantly rainfed and maize is a major food crop, primarily produced for home consumption and the market by small-scale family farms. The|study characterized farm households in the drought prone maize growing areas of eastern Africa synthesizing data from parallel household surveys in Ethiopia, Kenya, Uganda and|Tanzania. The study provides a comparative analysis of the farm households? assets, livelihood strategies and crop management practices, with an emphasis on maize and maize seed. This illustrates how farmers in a similar agro-ecological environment but with different|socio-economic and institutional settings have variously adapted to living with drought and how the inherent weather risk co-determines the livelihood portfolio, gricultural|intensification incentives and system development pathways. The study thereby illustrates the challenges for agricultural intensification in such drought prone environments and the scope for drought tolerant maize varieties and explores the research and development|implications
UR  - http://hdl.handle.net/10883/1306
ER  -