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Maize is a critical staple cereal across Sub-Saharan Africa but attempts to improve its productivity in small-scale farming systems often prove disappointing. The 12 key technologies required to overcome poor yields are mostly known, but the manner in which they are mobilized, packaged,, delivered requires re-evaluation. Combinations of better varieties, their necessary accompanying inputs must become more available, affordable for an African maize revolution to succeed,, land must be managed in ways that enhance, rather than diminish, land quality over time. Adjustments to the bundling, transfer of these technologies as transferable assets pose a solvable dilemma. These interventions must be based upon specific agro-ecological, socio-economic contexts, offered within the scope of well-designed regional, national agricultural development agendas. Success in boosting maize yields, its companion field legumes form the basis for greater food security across Africa, value-adding enterprises, including the growth of blended flours, commercial animal production. This chapter describes how these technologies may be most effectively mobilized within the current thrust to transform African agriculture.

Agricultural Transformation in Maize Producing Areas of Africa