International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center Grant

Organization - International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center
Grant Amount - $91,671
Foundation - Rockefeller Foundation
Grant Purpose - toward the costs of developing a strategy for using market incentives to improve the production and distribution of newly-developed drought- and low-nitrogen-tolerant maize varieties, and evaluating the impact of these varieties on the food security and incomes of smallholder farmers in southern Africa


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