News & Stories
Latest STMA Bulletin is outDate: May 14, 2020
Read the latest news from the just concluded Stress Tolerant Maize for Africa (STMA) initiative. This issue highlights the impact the project has had on farmers in sub-Saharan Africa, how it has helped build resilience of Africa’s smallholder farmers and how the improved maize varieties will enable partners to ...
- List of STMA supported publications for sub-Saharan Africa for 2019
Date: May 14, 2020
Amondo, E., Simtowe, F., Rahut, D.B., Erenstein, O., 2019. Productivity and production risk effects of adopting drought-tolerant maize varieties in Zambia. International Journal of Climate Change Strategies and Management 11, 570-591. https://doi.org/10.1108/IJCCSM-03-2018-0024 Awata, L. A. O., Ifie, B. E., Tongoona, P., Danquah, E., Jumbo, M. B., Gowda, M., Marchelo-D’ragga, P. W., ...
Seeing is believing: demo farms accelerate adoption of stress tolerant maizeDate: February 19, 2020
Joshua Masinde Over 400 farmers from Manyatta in Embu County were on February 7, 2020, invited to a demonstration farm to witness the performance of various high yielding, early to medium maturing, drought tolerant maize varieties. Such occasions aim to encourage them to adopt varieties whose traits they preferred the most. Some ...
Latest STMA Bulletin is outDate: January 16, 2020
Read the latest news from the Stress Tolerant Maize for Africa (STMA) initiative. This issue highlights stories on how stress tolerant maize is improving the lives of smallholder farmers in northern Uganda, after a two-decade civil war; why stress tolerant maize varieties are good for Africa and how CIMMYT and ...
Street theater amplifies need for stress tolerant maize varietiesDate: January 7, 2020
The Stress Tolerant Maize in Africa (STMA) project team in Nigeria used street theater to drum up messages on how to mitigate stresses affecting maize production in the country. The messages targeted mainly the youth, informing them that with the right stress-resilient seed varieties and the application of recommended agronomic ...
The list of STMA-supported research publications from West Africa for the year 2019 is outDate: November 30, 2019
Melaku Gedil and Abebe Menkir. 2019. An Integrated Molecular and Conventional Breeding Scheme for Enhancing Genetic Gain in Maize in Africa. Published in Frontiers. Plant Sciences and accessible here Adu, G. B., Badu-Apraku, B., Akromah, R., Garcia-Oliveira, A. L., Gedil, M., Awuku, F. J. 2019. Genetic diversity and population structure of early-maturing tropical maize inbred ...
Research Publications
- Latest STMA Bulletin is out
Date: May 14, 2020
Read the latest news from the just concluded Stress Tolerant Maize for Africa (STMA) initiative. This issue highlights the impact ...
- List of STMA supported publications for sub-Saharan Africa for 2019
Date: May 14, 2020
Amondo, E., Simtowe, F., Rahut, D.B., Erenstein, O., 2019. Productivity and production risk effects of adopting drought-tolerant maize varieties in ...
- Economic impacts of smallholder farmers’ adoption of drought-tolerant maize varieties
Date: March 17, 2020
Highlights: • Drought-tolerant maize variety is an adaptive response to climate variability. • Adoption of drought-tolerant maize varieties increases crop yield. • ...
- Seeing is believing: demo farms accelerate adoption of stress tolerant maize
Date: February 19, 2020
Joshua Masinde Over 400 farmers from Manyatta in Embu County were on February 7, 2020, invited to a demonstration farm to ...
- Latest STMA Bulletin is out
Date: January 16, 2020
Read the latest news from the Stress Tolerant Maize for Africa (STMA) initiative. This issue highlights stories on how stress ...
The list of STMA-supported research publications from Eastern and Southern African region for the year 2019 is outDate: November 17, 2019
The list of research publications supported by the STMA project for the year 2019 has been compiled. Breakthrough research findings cover adoption ...
Seeds of prosperity: Equator Seeds, Northern UgandaDate: November 3, 2019
“80 percent of farmers in northern Uganda still use the farm-saved or recycled seed, which we consider as our biggest ...
Latest STMA Bulletin is outDate: October 17, 2019
Discover the latest from the Stress Tolerant Maize for Africa (STMA) initiative. This issue talks about product profiling, costing of ...
Maize Ear Digital Imaging for Yield Components AssessmentDate: April 8, 2019
In Sub-Saharan Africa, many food security programs aim to increase crop yields by developing and disseminating better seeds and agronomy ...
Zelalem Bekeko, Chemeda Fininsa, Dagne Wegary, Temam Hussien, Shimelis Hussien and Belachew Asalf. 2018. Combining ability and nature of gene action in maize (Zea mays L) inbred lines for resistance to gray leaf spot disease (Cercospora zeae maydis) in Ethiopia.Date: January 23, 2019
Abstract: Ten elite maize inbred lines were selected based on all over per se performance and resistance to gray leaf ...
Setimela P, Zaman-Allah MA, Gasura E, Cairns JE, Thierfelder T, Prasanna BM. 2018. When the going gets tough: performance of stress tolerant maize under conservation agriculture during the 2015/16 El Nino season in southern Africa.Date: January 23, 2019
Abstract: The 2015/2016El Niño was the most severe on record in southern Africa and was associated with drought and heat ...
- Marenya, Paswel P. & Erenstein, Olaf & Prasanna, Boddupalli & Makumbi, Dan & Jumbo, MacDonald & Beyene, Yoseph, 2018. "Maize lethal necrosis disease: Evaluating agronomic and genetic control strategies for Ethiopia and Kenya,"
Date: January 23, 2019
Abstract: Maize lethal necrosis disease (MLN) was first diagnosed in eastern Africa in the 2010's and is a big threat ...
- Manje Gowda & Yoseph Beyene & Dan Makumbi & Kassa Semagn & Michael S. Olsen & Jumbo M. Bright & Biswanath Das & Stephen Mugo & L. M. Suresh & Boddupalli M. Prasanna (2018) Discovery and validation of genomic regions associated with resistance to maize lethal necrosis in four biparental populations.
Date: January 23, 2019
Abstract: Maize lethal necrosis (MLN) disease is a recent maize disease in sub-Saharan Africa that threatens the food security of ...
- Makanza R, Zaman-Allah M, Cairns JE, Eyre J, Burgueño J, Pacheco A, Diepenbrock C, Magorokosho C, Tarekegne A, Olsen M, Prasanna BM. 2018. High-throughput method for ear phenotyping and kernel weight estimation in maize using ear digital imaging.
Date: January 23, 2019
Abstract: Grain yield, ear and kernel attributes can assist to understand the performance of maize plant under different environmental conditions ...
- Keno, T., G. Azmach, D. Wegary, M. Worku, B. Tadesse, L. Wolde, T. Deressa, B. Abebe, T. Chibsa and L. M. Suresh. 2018. Major biotic maize production stresses in Ethiopia and their management through host resistance.
Date: January 23, 2019
Abstract: Biotic stresses are recently evolving very rapidly and posing significant yield losses of maize production in Ethiopia. A number ...
- Gracia-Romero A, Vergara-Diaz O, Thierfelder C, Cairns JE, Kefauver SC, Araus JL. 2018.Phenotyping conservation agriculture management effects on ground and aerial remote-sensing assessments of maize hybrids performance in Zimbabwe.
Date: January 23, 2019
Abstract: Conservation Agriculture (CA) has been recommended in sub-Saharan Africa to better manage soil health and boost crop productivity. Maize ...
- Chaikam V, Nair SK, Martinez L, Lopez LA, Utz HF, Melchinger AE and Boddupalli PM (2018) Marker-Assisted Breeding of Improved Maternal Haploid Inducers in Maize for the Tropical/Subtropical Regions.
Date: January 23, 2019
Abstract : Through in vivo induction of haploids and subsequent chromosomal doubling, genetically homozygous breeding lines called double haploid (DH) ...
- Cairns JE, Prasanna BM. 2018. Developing and deploying climate-resilient maize varieties in the developing world.
Date: January 23, 2019
Abstract: This paper found that climate-resilient maize has the potential to increase yield by 5–25% in Africa. Genetic gains in ...
- Araus JL, Kefauver SC, Zaman-Allah M, Olsen MS, Cairns JE. 2018.
Date: January 23, 2019
Abstract: Inability to efficiently implement high-throughput field phenotyping is increasingly perceived as a key component that limits genetic gain in breeding programs. ...
- Didier Kadjo, Jacob Ricker-Gilbert, Abdoulaye Tahirou, Gerald Shively, Nasser BACO, 2018. Storage losses, liquidity constraints, and maize storage decisions in Benin.
Date: January 23, 2019
Abstract: This article estimates how storage losses from mold, insects, and other pests, combined with liquidity constraints, influence a smallholder ...
- Abdoulaye, Tahirou, Tesfamicheal Wossen and Bola Awotide., 2018. Impacts of Improved Maize Varieties in Nigeria: Ex-Post Assessment of Productivity and Welfare Outcomes.
Date: January 23, 2019
Abstract: Investment in agricultural research and development is an important intervention for improving crop productivity and household welfare in most ...
- Characteristics of maize cultivars in Africa: How modern are they and how many do smallholder farmers grow?
Date: November 3, 2017
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- Impact of adoption of drought-tolerant maize varieties on total maize production in south Eastern Zimbabwe.
Date: November 3, 2017
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- Characteristics of maize cultivars in Africa: How modern are they and how many do smallholder farmers grow?
Date: March 27, 2017
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- Characterization of maize-producing communities in Benin, Ghana, Mali, and Nigeria
Date: January 17, 2017
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- Country profile and pictures of Drought Tolerant Maize work in 13 countries
Date: October 20, 2016
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- Community-survey based assessment of the geographic distribution and impact of maize lethal necrosis (MLN) disease in Kenya
Date: October 20, 2016
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- Drought tolerant maize for farmer adaptation to drought in sub-Saharan Africa
Date: October 15, 2016
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