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Improving Kenya's Domestic Horticultural Production and Marketing System: Current Competitiveness, Forces of Change, and Challenges for the Future (Volume I: Horticultural Producti...
Muendo, Kavoi Mutuku; Tschirley, David L. - Department of Agricultural, Food and Resource … - 2004
domestic markets; determine the share of imports from Tanzania and Uganda in Kenya’s horticultural markets; investigate the … competitiveness of Kenya’s horticultural produce in local and regional markets; determine the current and likely future share of key … marketing channels in Kenya’s domestic FFV marketing system, especially “modern” channels such as supermarkets and more …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008456890
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The Many Paths of Cotton Sector Reform in Eastern and Southern Africa: Lessons From a Decade of Experience
Tschirley, David L.; Poulton, Colin; Boughton, Duncan - Department of Agricultural, Food and Resource … - 2006
drawing lessons from experience. This paper assesses the record of five countries in southern and eastern Africa: Tanzania …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008456994
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Can the Market Deliver? Lessons from Kenya's Rising Use of Fertilizer Following Liberalization
Ariga, Joshua; Jayne, Thomas S. - Department of Agricultural, Food and Resource … - 2006
Published by Tegemeo Institute for Agricultural Policy and Development
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008519286
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Do Farmers Really Benefit from High Food Prices? Balancing Rural Interests in Kenya's Maize Pricing and Marketing Policy
Jayne, Thomas S.; Yamano, Takashi; Nyoro, James K.; … - Department of Agricultural, Food and Resource … - 2000
Published by Tegemeo Institute for Agricultural Policy and Development
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008533271
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Improving Kenya’s Domestic Horticultural Marketing System: Competitiveness, Forces of Change and Challenges for the Future
Tschirley, David L.; Muendo, Kavoi Mutuku; Ayieko, … - Department of Agricultural, Food and Resource … - 2004
Published by Tegemeo Institute for Agricultural Policy and Development
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008533273
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Effects of Government Maize Marketing and Trade Policies on Maize Market Prices in Kenya
Jayne, Thomas S.; Meyers, Robert J.; Nyoro, James K. - Department of Agricultural, Food and Resource … - 2005
The objectives of this paper are to determine the effects of NCPB maize trading activity and the maize import tariff on wholesale maize market price levels and volatility. The analysis uses monthly maize price and trade data covering the period January 1990 to September 2004. Results are based...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008456888
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Evolution of Kenya's Maize Marketing Systems in the Post-liberalization Era
Nyoro, James K.; Kiiru, M.W.; Jayne, Thomas S. - Department of Agricultural, Food and Resource … - 1999
The objectives of this paper are to: (1) identify the pattern of private sector investment in the maize marketing system since the reforms were initiated and evaluate the extent of private sector response to the reforms; (2) assess how maize prices and marketing margins have changed in response...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008456894
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Factors Driving the Growth in Fertilizer Consumption in Kenya, 1990-2005: Sustaining the Momentum in Kenya and Lessons for Broader Replicability in Sub-Saharan Africa
Ariga, Joshua; Jayne, Thomas S.; Nyoro, James K. - Department of Agricultural, Food and Resource … - 2006
The objective of this study is to identify the factors responsible for the impressive growth in fertilizer use in Kenya … and 2004. The study also explores whether the growth in fertilizer use in Kenya is attributed to any particular types of … supply chain models more widely in Kenya. Finally the study is meant to guide discussions on fertilizer marketing policy in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008456951
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Seasonal Analysis of Selected Fresh Fruit and Vegetable Prices at Wholesale Level in Key Urban Markets of Kenya
Mathenge, Mary K.; Tschirley, David L. - Department of Agricultural, Food and Resource … - 2006
Agricultural commodities typically show a strong seasonal pattern in production, with supplies which come off the farm during one or perhaps two distinct periods of the year having to meet relatively stable demand over the course of the entire year. This seasonal pattern in production can give...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008456967
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Agricultural Production Incentives: Fertilizer Markets and Insights from Kenya
Wanzala, Maria N.; Jayne, Thomas S.; Staatz, John M.; … - Department of Agricultural, Food and Resource … - 2001
fertilizers used have changed over the course of the liberalization process in Kenya. A second objective is to examine the … fertilizer subsector in Kenya with a view to identifying organizational and institutional changes that could improve its … performance. Various types of fertilizer supply chains serving farmers in western Kenya are identified, examine the cost structure …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008456979