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This paper evaluates how efficiently farm households allocate labor between farm and off-farm activities. It estimates farm and off-farm labor supply functions to determine the factorsthat influence labor allocation. Both the shadow wage and the off-farm wage rate are includedas regressors in...
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Maize marketing and trade policy in Kenya has been dominated by two major challenges. The first challenge concerns the …, and price levels, and the forces shaping these trends. These are the objectives of this background paper for Kenya. The … instability. Section 5 describes Kenya’s maize marketing and trade policy objectives, the rationale behind these objectives, and a …
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. Elasticities from three estimators OLS, SURE and IV indicate that imported wheat, maize and rice are normal commodities in Kenya …
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Using survey data from the community, producer marketing groups (PMGs) and farmhouseholds in Kenya, this paper …
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surplus and input use in Kenya. A selectivity model was used that accounts not only for the effects of fixed and variable …
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hoarding practice in Western region of Kenya. Data from Egerton University’s Tegemeo Institute of Agricultural Policy and …
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perch fillets were differentiated by product form (chilled and frozen) and by source country (Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda …
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Pastoralists in northern Kenya may be able to diversify income by selling milk in nearby towns and cities. However …, milk sold in open-air markets in communities in northern Kenya is often of low quality in terms of its sensory … experimental auctions to determine if consumers in the border town of Moyale, Kenya are willing to pay for enhanced milk sensory …
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and Kenya. Invariably, women with prior infant deaths were found to have more subsequent births than those without … and Kenya, there were significant differences in the effects of childhood mortality on subsequent births. At all parities …
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instance, affect the risk of a higher order birth? These questions are examined using DHS data from Ghana and Kenya. At each … parity, women with childhood mortality experience were found to have a higher number of subsequent than those without …
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