interactions and feedback between farm-household economic decision-making and long term soil fertility dynamics that appear to … characterize persistent poverty and food insecurity among smallholders in rural highland Kenya. We examine the effects of changing … initial endowments of land and stocks of on-farm soil organic matter on smallholders’ well-being, as reflected in several …

Kenya. System dynamics modeling is well-suited to examining the complex interactions and feedback between farm-household … economic decision making and long-term soil dynamics which may be at the source of persistent poverty among smallholders in …

how farm household land use and socioeconomic factors affect soil fertility. Market access, population growth, socio … of Kenya is associated by region, land use categories (cash crop, food crop, fodder and pastures), and selected household … socio economic factors (household income, number of adults, farm size and number of cattle). Over 2000 fields on 236 farms …