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Abstract
This paper describes the findings of a study that used a multi-market model to assess the potential impact of improved
maize technologies on the welfare of various types of rural and urban households in Kenya. The modelling results indicate that
technologies developed for high potential regions are likely to have more profound aggregate impacts on maize production and
lead to greater reductions in import demand (if prices are controlled) or maize prices (if maize prices are flexible). Technology
adoption in high potential regions is likely to have substantially greater positive impacts on aggregate real incomes, but inferior
income distributional outcomes compared to technology adoption in marginal regions.
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