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Supermarkets are currently gaining ground in the agri-food systems of many developing countries. While recent research has analyzed income effects in the small farm sector, impacts on farming efficiency have hardly been studied. Productivity effects in previous studies are also estimated with...
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. This study examines the welfare effects of one such project in western Kenya. It uses household food security and access to …
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panel of 1,256 farm households in 22 districts in Kenya interviewed in 1997, 2000, 2004 and 2007, we find that a relatively … Government of Kenya findings of declining national poverty rates over the same general period. For the 25 percent of households … fertilizer over the 2000-07 period, consistent with the overall agricultural and economy-wide growth in Kenya that occurred …
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This study uses panel data from 1,142 Kenya smallholder households over four survey periods to examine the determinants … income. We find that land rental markets in Kenya enhance productivity and are equitable. The results are consistent across … rental markets in Kenya appear to play an important role in raising incomes and reducing poverty for land …
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instability in Kenya. Using the Rotterdam model to estimate EU demand for roses from Kenya and other global competitors, we find … evidence of a structural change in the import growth rate for Kenya, approximately equivalent to an 18.6% tariff. These results …
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understanding. Reviewing recent evidence from Kenya, we show that buying food in supermarkets instead of traditional outlets …
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High poverty rate persists in rural Kenya, where farming households continue to depend on agriculture for food and … diversification among Kenya’s smallholder maize growers. We employ a combination of propensity score matching and endogenous switching …
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Faster agricultural development requires understanding whether the inverse land size-yield relationship exists or not. To verify the presence of this relationship, this study decomposes a yield index into separate components attributable to (1) efficiency, (2) soil quality, (3) land size, (4)...
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populated areas of Africa. This study utilizes household and plot level data from rural Kenya to explore the linkage between …
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Using a unique dataset of maize samples and consumer interviews form Eastern Kenya, we find that the presence of the …
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