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Despite being framed as a key component of the nation’s poverty reduction strategy, evidence suggests that inputs distributed under Zambia’s Farmer Input Support Programme (FISP) tend to be targeted to the least poor rural households.
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perception in Kenya that fertilizer use is not expanding quickly enough and that application rates are not high enough to reverse …
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Vihiga, one of the poorest and densely populated districts in Kenya is perpetually food deficit (GOK, 2005). While food … of labor through training. Key Words: Food security, Translog cost function, Vihiga, Kenya …
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Province of Kenya. Data were collected from a total of 161 women farmers, 32 women groups as well as 254 individual males … farmers engaged in small-scale production of various food crops in Western Province in Kenya for a period of 1 year. Data were … yardsticks to unlocking agricultural production in Kenya, which is currently erroneously left to the domains of men. The study …
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With declining Irish potato production trends in Kenya this paper identifies and analyses factors that influence the … economic efficiency of smallholder Irish potato producers in Kenya by drawing on data from random sample of 130 smallholder …
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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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With declining Irish potato production trends in Kenya this paper identifies and analyses factors that influence the … economic efficiency of smallholder Irish potato producers in Kenya by drawing on data from random sample of 130 smallholder …
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survey of vegetable farmers in Kenya, in this article a double-hurdle model of hired labor use is developed and estimated …
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Striga hermonthica (del) Benth is threatening rural livelihoods in western Kenya where maize is the major food and cash …-scale farmers in the Striga-affected areas of western Kenya. Key words: livelihoods, maize, Striga, Kenya, Logit …
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