Our results on soil variation shows an opportunity to target improved seed and other interventions based on the variation in soils within a village or larger geographic area.

In mid-altitude regions, the option to purchase WSC maize seed unambiguously increased productivity, but most significantly among better-resourced farmers who had historically used hybrid seed.

Understanding how farmers make their production choices is essential to designing effective interventions to promote new agricultural technologies to close yield gaps and reduce poverty.

This new BASIS research project will test this hypothesis, evaluating the impact of a new seed market actor like WSC on the incomes and well-being of the small-scale farming community.

With appropriate caution given to the findings on household living standards, it is fair to say that the program succeeded for many, but not all targeted households.