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Hugo De Groote
Researcher at International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center
Publications - 144
Citations - 4155
Hugo De Groote is an academic researcher from International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center. The author has contributed to research in topics: Agriculture & Food security. The author has an hindex of 32, co-authored 130 publications receiving 3502 citations. Previous affiliations of Hugo De Groote include CGIAR & International Institute of Tropical Agriculture.
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The metal silo: An effective grain storage technology for reducing post-harvest insect and pathogen losses in maize while improving smallholder farmers' food security in developing countries
Tadele Tefera,Fred Kanampiu,Hugo De Groote,Jon Hellin,Stephen Mugo,Simon Chege Kimenju,Yoseph Beyene,Prasanna M. Boddupalli,Bekele Shiferaw,Marianne Bänziger +9 more
TL;DR: The use of metal silo should be encouraged in order to prevent storage losses and enhance food security in developing countries, including Africa, Asia and Latin America.
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Breeding and disseminating quality protein maize (QPM) for Africa
TL;DR: Quality protein maize (QPM) is a range of maize cultivars with twice the content of limiting amino acids lysine and tryptophan compared with conventional maize, and has been developed to help reduce human malnutrition in areas where protein deficiency is prevalent and where maize is the major protein source in the diet as mentioned in this paper.
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Consumer willingness to pay for genetically modified food in Kenya
TL;DR: A survey of 604 consumers was conducted in Nairobi, Kenya, in 2003, to gauge consumers' awareness of GM crops, their willingness to pay (WTP) for GM food, and the factors that influence their WTP.
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Effectiveness of hermetic systems in controlling maize storage pests in Kenya
TL;DR: In this article, the authors show that metal silos are very effective in controlling maize weevils and the larger grain borer (Prostephanus truncatus) and conclude that it is technically feasible to control storage insects without insecticides in Africa by using hermetic storage.
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Maize Yield Losses from Stemborers in Kenya
TL;DR: Farmers’ (often subjective) estimates of losses under natural infestation and the incidence of infestation were used to estimate maize yield losses for each of Kenya’s major agroecological zones, finding that high-potential areas have relatively low crop loss levels, while the low-potentially areas have higher losses.