Seeding eastern Africa’s maize revolution in the post-structural adjustment era: a review and comparative analysis of the formal maize seed sector
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Olaf Erenstein, Girma Kassie. (8/1/2018). Seeding eastern Africa’s maize revolution in the post-structural adjustment era: a review and comparative analysis of the formal maize seed sector. International Food and Agribusiness Management Review, 21 (1), pp. 39 -52.
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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 and Ethiopia drawing from seed sector surveys and secondary data. Enhancing farmers’ access to
and use of new maize varieties still presents a number of challenges in eastern Africa – not least due to a
number of policy and institutional impediments to the development of the seed sector. The regional seed
sectors also show some remarkable contrasts: they have evolved at different speeds and in different directions,
driven by diverging agricultural growth opportunities and varying degrees of regulation, liberalization and
restructuring. The paper reiterates calls for an enabling environment for private seed companies to evolve
in order to serve the diverse farmer communities so that they benefit from existing and future improved
maize seed opportunities.
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Kassie, Girma https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7430-4291