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Within-Season Producer Response to Warmer Temperatures : Defensive Investments by Kenyan Farmers
Jagnani, Maulik - 2020
We present evidence that farmers adjust agricultural inputs in response to within-season temperature variation, undertaking defensive investments to reduce the adverse agroecological impacts of warmer temperatures. Using panel data from Kenyan maize growing households, we find that higher...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012853586
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Designing REDD Schemes When Forest Users Are Not Forest Landowners : Evidence from a Survey-Based Experiment in Kenya
Veronesi, Marcella; Schloendorn, Tim; Zabel, Astrid; … - 2015
people around REDD forests who are forest users but not forest landowners by implementing a survey-based experiment in Kenya …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014170205
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The effect of environmental change on sustainable energy in Olkaria geothermal and Kenya power station, Nakuru County, Kenya
Kipsielei, Gideon; Gesimba, Paul Omato; Gichuhi, David - 2020
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012544338
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Collective Action for Watershed Management : Field Experiments in Colombia and Kenya
Cárdenas, Juan-Camilo; Rodríguez, Luz Angela; … - 2013
access. We report two field experiments conducted in Colombia and Kenya. The Irrigation Game was used to explore the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014198576
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Household Welfare, Investment in Soil and Water Conservation and Tenure Security : Evidence from Kenya
Kabubo-Mariara, Jane; Linderhof, Vincent; Kruseman, Gideon - 2015
In Kenya, conservation and sustainable utilization of the environment and natural resources form an integral part of … agricultural productivity growth. This study was motivated by the paucity of literature on the poverty-environment nexus in Kenya …’s development strategy. The paper builds on the few existing studies from Kenya and explores the impact of household, farm and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014199619
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Corporate Sustainability Accounting and Reporting in Kenya
Mbalu, Paul; Kamau, Charles Guandaru - 2022
The paper aims to scrutinize the current issues in sustainability accounting research, the pillars of corporate social responsibility and accounting, and to assess the subsequent trends of sustainability accounting and reporting. The research reviewed recent literature in sustainability...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013308297
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Private Actions in the Presence of Externalities : The Health Impacts of Reducing Air Pollution Peaks but not Ambient Exposure
Berkouwer, Susanna B.; Dean, Joshua T. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
Extensive research has documented that elevated air pollution increases mortality and morbidity, with estimates reaching 8 million deaths per year. Many of the world's one billion urban poor face both high ambient concentrations and even higher transient peaks. Should government interventions...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014372478
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Small and as productive : female headed households and the inverse relationship between land size and output in Kenya
Gĩthĩnji, Mwangi wa; Konstantinidis, Charalampos; … - 2011
different between female and male headed households in the case of Kenya, using the Kenya Integrated Household Budget and … well as (if not better than) male headed households. -- Agriculture ; Gender ; Kenya ; Africa ; Crop Choice ; Land …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009381713
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The role of livestock portfolios and group-based approaches for building resilience in the face of accelerating climate change : an asset-based panel data analysis from rural Kenya
Ngigi, Marther W.; Büttner, Ulrike; Birner, Regina - 2015
households in three agro-ecological zones in Kenya. To control for unobserved heterogeneity, a "within" household fixed effects …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011349418
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Farmer participation in supermarket channels and technical efficiency : the case of vegetable production in Kenya
Rao, Elizaphan James Oburu; Qaim, Matin - 2009
Supermarkets and high-value exports are currently gaining ground in the agri-food systems of many developing countries. While recent research has analyzed income effects in the small farm sector, impacts on farming efficiency have hardly been studied. Using a survey of Kenyan vegetable growers...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010258039