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 …

smallholders. The objective of this research is to understand how development organizations are conceptualizing and developing … agricultural value chains in Ghana to include smallholders. The study is based on case studies of five programs supported by … encourage the development of interlinked vertical contracts between smallholders and buyers and investments to improve the …

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 …

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 …

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 …

agriculture sector. In this context, Myanmar's rubber sector has the potential to become an even greater source of export earnings … only improving the institutional environment, will not result in positive returns on investment for smallholders; reforms …