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245	1	0	_aCharacterization of maize producing households in drought prone regions of Eastern Africa
260			_aMexico : _bCIMMYT, _c2011.
300			_aix, 68 pages
490			_aSocioeconomics Working Paper ; _v1
500			_aOpen Access
500			_aOn-line only
520			_aAgriculture 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.
536			_aSocioeconomics Program|Global Maize Program
546			_aText in English
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650		7	_aFood production _91116
650		7	_aResearch projects _91237
651		0	_94387 _aEast Africa
700			_97200 _aTesfahun, G.
700	1		_9175 _aLangyintuo, A.S.
700	1		_95319 _aMwangi, W.
856	4		_uhttp://hdl.handle.net/10883/1306 _yOpen Access through DSpace
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