Agricultural research institutes in Sub-Sahara Africa have focused on establishing farmer groups that facilitate the … commercial production and marketing of African Indigenous Vegetables (AIVs) to address food and nutritional security. With the …

Estimation of consumption intensity of African indigenous vegetables (AIVs) is important to understand how their …

commercialisation decisions of smallholders of African Indigenous Vegetables (AIVs). We explore sources of market information and social … household survey data collected in Western Kenya from 202 farmers, using multistage sampling. Findings show market information …

project. The HORTINLEA project is an inter-disciplinary research project addressing food security in East Africa, particularly … in Kenya. The project targets to improve the livelihood and nutritional situation of the rural and urban poor. To achieve … this, it focuses on production and consumption of horticultural crops, especially of African indigenous vegetables (AIVs …

household income and assets in Kenya. We use a survey panel dataset, which allows us to control for unobserved heterogeneity … across households, and show that the commercialization of vegetables through both market channels contributes positively to … welfare, even when addressing the issue of selection into commercialization. While the production of vegetables for the export …