Why the early promise for rapid increases in maize productivity in Kenya was not sustained: Lessons for sustainable investment in agriculture

The African Food Crisis: Lessons from the Asian Green Revolution

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 181-196

  Oluoch Kosura, Willis ^a   Karugia, Joseph T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NAIROBI   (Kenya)

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