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Agricultural commercialization has become the centerpiece of the sector development strategy in Uganda in recent years … of commercialization in Uganda. We find that the key constraint to agricultural commercialization in Uganda is inadequate … are in line with the recent literature on smallholder market participation in Africa. We also find that commercialization …
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Most micro-level studies on the impact of agricultural technologies build on cross-section data, which can lead to unreliable impact estimates. Here, we use panel data covering two time periods to estimate the impact of tissue culture (TC) banana technology in the Kenyan small farm sector. TC...
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study of education expenditure in Kenya, we show that our understanding of the distributional implications of public …
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malnutrition together with dramatically high rates of mortality, encountered in Kenya’s Lake Victoria territory, is unique for Sub …
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Kenya. Participation in supermarket channels is associated with a 50% gain in average household income, leading to …
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Supermarkets and high-value exports 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. Using a survey of Kenyan vegetable growers...
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the factors that are influencing adoption decisions among finger millet farmers in Western Kenya. Based on cross …
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Specialization and commercialization of agricultural production is seen as a key to lift small-scale farmers in …
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We analyze yield effects of tissue culture (TC) banana technology in the Kenyan small farm sector, using recent survey data and an endogenous switching regression approach. TC banana plantlets, which are free from pests and diseases, have been introduced in East Africa since the late-1990s....
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farmers in Kenya. Farmer groups are inclusive of the poor, although wealthier households are more likely to join. Employing …
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