Biofortification, breeding staple food crops to be dense sources of essential micronutrients, is fast emerging as a strategy to fight micronutrient malnutrition.

Agricultural interventions are thought to have the potential to improve nutrition, but very little rigorous evidence is available about programs that link the two.

Despite the policy importance of household nutrition and food security in rural Zambia, we are not aware of any analyses since a 1994 study by Shubh Kumar that have related the adoption of hybrid seed to dietary diversity among smallholder maize g

This analysis explores smallholder demand for hybrid maize seed by subsidy receipt.

This analysis explores the determinants of demand for first-generation (F1) hybrid maize seed in Zambia based on a survey of maize growers during the 2010/11 cropping season.

Although farmers in developing countries are generally thought to be risk averse, little is known about the actual form of their risk preferences.

This study analyzes consumer acceptance of biofortified orange maize in rural Zambia by eliciting consumers’ willingness to pay.