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In many developing countries, supermarkets are expanding rapidly. This also affects farmers’ marketing options … analysis focuses on vegetable producers in Kenya. Participation in supermarket channels is associated with large income gains …, which have further increased over time. However, many farmers are not able to enter supermarket channels, or they have …
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Commercialization of agriculture in is a worthy effort in attaining food sufficiency in Africa. However, this needed … implies there will be greater chances of farm accidents, mishap, fatality, production loss time and other burdens on farmer’s … commercialization of agriculture, are workable solutions to the likely health, safety and environmental challenges from the …
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Improving farmers’ access to markets is widely recognized as a major development challenge. A review of the literature …, in the process, uses farm survey data from Kenya to investigate changes in multiple indicators during the post …
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decade. These improvements, however, have not been uniformly distributed over either time or space. Farmers in high …
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The present study investigates the development (i.e., rise or decline) in African agricultural efficiency level and what drives the efficiency over the years. A total of 379 frontier studies resulting in 534 farm level efficiency estimates were considered using meta-regression analysis (MRA) for...
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and 2005). The number of farmers involved in the sector grew similarly, yields trended upwards (though slowly), and the … by farmers supported with seasonal input credit by ginning companies. …
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This brief reviews results of applied research regarding the role of government in staple food markets in East and Southern Africa. The purpose of the brief is to draw lessons for Mozambique as it decides how to use the grain storage silos it has been building since 2009. The authors suggest...
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the level and determinants of food security among young farmers in Africa. We adopted a multi-stage sampling technique to … select 400, 429, and 606 young farmers in Kenya, Nigeria, and Uganda, respectively. Individual food consumption was assessed … used to assess food security status while the determinants of food security were identified using a logistic regression …
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