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What is the Scope for Increased Fertilizer Use in Kenya?
Sheahan, Megan; Black, Roy; Jayne, Thomas S. - Department of Agricultural, Food and Resource … - 2012
Despite upward trends in fertilizer application rates on maize fields over the last twenty years, there remains a perception in Kenya that fertilizer use is not expanding quickly enough and that application rates are not high enough to reverse the country’s growing national food deficit. In...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010909783
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Smallholder Heterogeneity and Maize Market Participation in Southern and Eastern Africa: Implications for Investment Strategies to Increase Marketed Food Staple Supply
Mather, David; Boughton, Duncan; Jayne, Thomas S. - Department of Agricultural, Food and Resource … - 2011
staples while maintaining low retail prices – are also key to continued poverty reduction, as smallholder incomes increase …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009368797
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Are Staple Foods Becoming More Expensive For Urban Consumers In Eastern And Southern Africa? Trends in Food Prices, Marketing Margins, and Wage Rates in Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique,...
Mason, Nicole M.; Jayne, Thomas S.; Donovan, Cynthia; … - Department of Agricultural, Food and Resource … - 2009
The world food and financial crises threaten to undermine the real incomes of urban consumers in eastern and southern Africa. This study investigates patterns in staple food prices, wage rates, and marketing margins for urban consumers in Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique, and Zambia between 1993 and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008530524
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Characteristics Associated with Prime-Age Mortality in Eastern and Southern Africa: Evidence from Zambia and Kenya
Chapoto, Antony; Jayne, Thomas S.; Kirimi, Lilian; … - Department of Agricultural, Food and Resource … - 2009
support this. An emerging strand of the literature on the AIDS epidemic in Africa posits that poverty is increasingly … evidence of a poverty-AIDS connection. This study attempts to shed light on these issues by reporting findings from two linked …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008555521
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Trading out of Poverty: WTO Agreements and the West African Agriculture. A Report of the Food Security II Cooperative Agreement
Nouve, Kofi; Staatz, John M.; Schweikhardt, David B.; … - Department of Agricultural, Food and Resource … - 2002
This report is a brief survey of WTO agreements and their implications for the West African economies (including Chad). The study reviews the positions of West African countries on various WTO issues and compares these positions with positions expressed by major trade partners, particularly the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008543618
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Factors Associated with Farm Households’ Movement Into and Out of Poverty in Kenya: The Rising Importance of Livestock.
Burke, William J.; Jayne, Thomas S.; Freeman, H. Ade; … - Department of Agricultural, Food and Resource … - 2007
This study explores the dynamics of poverty in Kenya. The study specifically examines how initial conditions, household … decisions, and other factors that may change over time affect poverty. Dynamic relationships are identified between behavioral …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008555515
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Spatial Disadvantages or Spatial Poverty Traps: Household Evidence from Rural Kenya.
Burke, William J.; Jayne, Thomas S. - Department of Agricultural, Food and Resource … - 2008
escaping from poverty as well as descending into poverty; 3) to determine effects of compound disadvantages on the likelihood … of chronic poverty; and 4) to assess the evidence of spatial poverty traps (SPTs). Quantitative analysis is conducted … those households found to have risen from poverty (starting in the bottom tercile and ending in the top tercile, the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008555527
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Trends in Per Capita Food Availability in West Africa, 1980-2009
Me-Nsope, Nathalie Mongue; Staatz, John M. - Department of Agricultural, Food and Resource … - 2013
The goal of this paper is to provide evidence of shifts in food consumption patterns in the ECOWAS countries of West Africa from 1980 through 2009.1 In particular, the analysis is intended to identify major contributors to diets, changes in the levels as well as in the composition of food supply...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010909782
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Employment and Housing in Lima, Peru
Strassman, Paul - Department of Agricultural, Food and Resource … - 1986
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010941088
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Does Household Headship Affect Demand for Hybrid Maize Seed in Kenya? An Exploratory Analysis Based on 2010 Survey Data
Smale, Melinda - Department of Agricultural, Food and Resource … - 2011
Women are central to food production and maize is a dominant food staple in Sub-Saharan Africa, but published gender analyses of hybrid seed use in Sub-Saharan Africa are uncommon. Building on previous work, this paper tests the effects of headship definitions on hybrid seed use and explores the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009368796