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This study documents how farmers modified an improved maize variety-with desirable characteristics for all farmers, but perceived as affordable only to the wealthy-into one appropriate for all, including the poor. Changes in the extent of adoption and associated farmers' perceptions of the improved variety V-524 in a community in Chiapas, Mexico over a nine-year period are examined. During the period...