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(ASALs) using data collected from 500 households across Samburu District; Kenya. We hypothesised that as we move from wet to …
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The study assesses the impact of shocks on livestock and the role of adaptation to climate change in protecting assets from weather shocks. Data collection relied on a mixed-method approach, including household surveys and participatory rural appraisals (PRAs) in each site. The study uses panel...
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income and consumption expenditure in rural Ethiopia and Tanzania. The study utilizes cross-sectional farm household level … data collected in 2007 from a randomly selected sample of 1313 households (700 in Ethiopia and 613 in Tanzania). We …
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Rapid economic growth has failed to significantly improve poverty and nutrition outcomes in Tanzania. This raises … the structure of economic growth—not the level—is currently constraining the rate of poverty reduction in Tanzania …
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maize (QPM) in rural Tanzania. Due to the malnutrition problem facing consumers in developing countries, QPM which has …
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semi-arid areas of Tanzania. Although sorghum is better adapted to drier areas than maize, farmer adoption rates for …
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The need to provide agricultural information to farmers has led to emergence of numerous ICTbased MIS projects in developing country. These projects aim at promoting commercialization of smallholder agriculture and subsequently their welfare. This study examines the how the environment in which...
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One of the major challenges facing the state‐owned Kenya Meat Commission (KMC) in Kenya has been the inadequate supply …‐take rates for cattle and shoats in the pastoral areas of East Pokot District, Kenya. The multinomial logit model was used for … econometric analyses using both primary and secondary data obtained from different sources covering the pastoral areas of Kenya …
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Poultry production is one of the most important economic activities to the smallholder farmers of Kenya. However …, optimal production levels, production systems of small-scale poultry farmers in Bureti district, Kenya. Primary data were …
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from a survey of vegetable growers in Kenya, we account for systematic differences and show that participation in …
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