Maize in the developing world
Channel: CIMMYT
Date: 03/10/2011

Worldwide millions rely on maize as a staple food crop. Prices for the crop have doubled in the last decade and are projected to keep rising. According to a recent article by Socioeconomists at the International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT; www.cimmyt.org) "The combined challenges of increasing demand, continuing poverty and malnutrition, natural resource depletion and climate change will require the world to double the productivity and dramatically increase the sustainability and resilience of maize-based farming systems."

Read the full text here: http://www.springerlink.com/content/b881l05j51370j87/

This video highlights the challenges and opportunities facing maize production by following those that depend most on the crop: farmers.

CREDITS:
Edited and produced by Mary Attaway