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Improving Kenya's Domestic Horticultural Production and Marketing System: Current Competitiveness, Forces of Change, and Challenges for the Future (Volume III: Horticultural Resear...

Muendo, Kavoi Mutuku; Tschirley, David L. - Department of Agricultural, Food and Resource … - 2004

horticultural sectors in Kenya and Tanzania, and to recommend steps that should be taken to place Kenya’s domestic horticulture in a …

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Agricultural Extension in Kenya: Practice and Policy Lessons

Muyanga, Milu; Jayne, Thomas S. - Department of Agricultural, Food and Resource … - 2006

practices and husbandry skills among small farmers in Kenya are very great. Tremendous poverty-reducing benefits could be reaped … food crop and livestock extension services currently operating in Kenya, what works, what doesn’t, and why. The report is … discussions about extension service provision in Kenya and the role of the government in such a scenario. The study covered 16 …

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Trends and Patterns in Fertilizer Use by Smallholder Farmers in Kenya, 1997-2007

Ariga, Joshua; Jayne, Thomas S.; Kibaara, Betty; Nyoro, … - Department of Agricultural, Food and Resource … - 2008

recent surveys in Kenya to assess comparability. We also examine the correlation between household fertilizer use and …

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Improving Kenya's Domestic Horticultural Production and Marketing System: Current Competitiveness, Forces of Change, and Challenges for the Future (Volume II: Horticultural Marketi...

Tschirley, David L.; Muendo, Kavoi Mutuku; Weber, Michael T. - 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 …

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Measuring the Impacts of Prime-age Adult Death on Rural Households in Kenya

Yamano, Takashi; Jayne, Thomas S. - Department of Agricultural, Food and Resource … - 2002

Using a two-year panel of 1,422 Kenyan households surveyed in 1997 and 2000, we measure how primeage adult mortality affects rural households’ size and composition, agricultural production, asset levels, and off-farm income. First, the paper uses adult mortality rates from available data on an...

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Has Kenyan Farmers’ Access to Markets and Services Improved? Panel Survey Evidence, 1997-2007

Chamberlin, Jordan; Jayne, Thomas S. - Department of Agricultural, Food and Resource … - 2009

This report uses panel data on 1,267 smallholder households to monitor changes in their access to markets and services. We find that Kenyan smallholders’ proximity to infrastructure, markets, and services has improved markedly over the last decade. These improvements, however, have not been...

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Promoting Fertilizer Use in Africa: Current Issues and Empirical Evidence from Malawi, Zambia, and Kenya

Minde, Isaac J.; Jayne, Thomas S.; Crawford, Eric W.; … - Department of Agricultural, Food and Resource … - 2008

Agricultural Monitoring and Policy Analysis Project, funded by USAID/Kenya; the Food Security Research Project/Markets, Trade and …

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Staple Food Consumption Patterns in Urban Kenya: Trends and Policy Implications

Muyanga, Milu; Jayne, Thomas S.; Argwings-Kodhek, Gem; … - Department of Agricultural, Food and Resource … - 2005

effects on urban poverty. Because Kenya is a member of COMESA and WTO, there will be external pressures to reduce these duties …

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Competitiveness of Kenyan and Ugandan Maize Production: Challenges for the Future

Nyoro, James K.; Kirimi, Lilian; Jayne, Thomas S. - Department of Agricultural, Food and Resource … - 2004

The purpose of this study is to assess the costs of maize production in Kenya and Uganda, starting from the fact that … into seven region/technology categories, five in Kenya and two in eastern Uganda, in order to compare the relative …

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Feast and Famine: Financial Services for Rural Kenya

Argwings-Kodhek, Gem; Kwamboka, Mary; Karin, Francis - Department of Agricultural, Food and Resource … - 2004

The paper gives a brief description of the history and main institutional forms in the agricultural and rural financial services sector–commercial banks, the micro-finance industry, savings and credit cooperative societies, village banks, building societies and the Agricultural Finance...

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