@article{Erenstein:266448,
      recid = {266448},
      author = {Erenstein, Olaf and Kassie, Girma Tesfahun},
      title = {Seeding eastern Africa’s maize revolution   in the  post-structural adjustment era: a review and comparative  analysis of the formal maize seed sector},
      journal = {International Food and Agribusiness Management Review},
      address = {2018},
      number = {1030-2018-049},
      year = {2018},
      abstract = {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.},
      url = {http://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/266448},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.22004/ag.econ.266448},
}