Economics of Trait Stacking in Smallholder Maize: Seed Price, Yield Gain and Adoption Thresholds
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.22666877Keywords:
Economics of Trait Stacking in Smallholder Maize; Agricultural biotechnology; Gene editing; Evidence synthesis; Biosafety regulationAbstract
Economics of Trait Stacking in Smallholder Maize has moved quickly from a research idea to something a working breeding or
production programme can actually use, but the evidence behind it has not always kept pace. We pull together the current
evidence for economics of trait stacking in smallholder maize, covering the methodological, practical, regulatory and cost angles,
with an eye on where practice has genuinely settled and where researchers and regulators are still largely working it out for
themselves. Selective, context-specific adoption looks better supported by the evidence gathered here than either broad rollout or
blanket avoidance.
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