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development of agricultural strategies by expanding the number of commitments and goals under the Comprehensive Africa Agriculture … and simulation of the Malabo goals on poverty and hunger. The modeling framework is applied to Kenya using the most recent … data. The Malabo Agenda simulation results indicate that Kenya's current nonagriculture-led growth is not sufficient to …
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Annual data on Kenya from 1950 to 2014 are used to analyze the determinants of the level and composition of government … expenditures for six functions (general administration, defense, education, health, agriculture, and other economic functions …
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This paper is part of a set of country case studies that take a detailed look at public expenditures in agriculture and …/2011, this paper first reviews the institutional arrangement and budgeting process in Kenya, followed by a description of the … structure of public expenditure account in Kenya. The expenditure data are aggregated according to clearly delineated …
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adaptation. Data were collected in Bangladesh, Ethiopia, Kenya, and Mali using both an e-survey platform and face …
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in eastern and central Kenya, we explore the relationship between price, brand, and aflatoxin contamination. Aflatoxin is …
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Rural household economies dependent on rainfed agriculture are increasingly turning to irrigation technology solutions … income management. This paper reports findings from a qualitative study undertaken in Tanzania and Kenya to examine women …
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Evidence continues to mount that foodborne illness imposes a staggering health burden in developing countries. However, standard approaches used by developed country governments to ensure food safety are not appropriate in settings where regulatory enforcement capacity is weak and most firms are...
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relative decline of agriculture was due to the policies of import-substituting industrialization (ISI). This was also the …. We find that the declining land-labor ratio was more important than ISI in explaining relative stagnation in agriculture … agriculture …
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clearer picture of Chinese activities in agriculture is important as a foundation for Africans and their development partners … to more fruitfully engage with an increasingly important actor. Chinese engagement in agriculture and rural development …
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Because many rural poor live in areas far away from markets, we investigate whether better road access could help improve their livelihood and reduce rural poverty. We use three waves of a primary panel survey at the household level conducted in 18 remote natural villages in China to study how...
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