A study was conducted in the mountains (Nyiru, Ndoto and Marsabit) of northern Kenya to determine the quality of honey processed and stored by honey processors and traders. Twelve processed and stored honey samples were randomly collected from processing groups and honey traders in three honey...

Adaptation is critical since the mitigation efforts to reduce the sources or enhance the sinks of greenhouse gases will take time. The concern in developing countries, particularly in Sub Sahara Africa (SSA) is due to high vulnerability and ability to adapt is low. This study analyses adaptation...

Agricultural marketing in Kenya, just like other developing countries, is characterised by long transaction chains, poor access to appropriate and timely information, high transport and transaction costs. In Murang’a County the banana is an important horticultural crop in terms of its present...

A cross-sectional analysis was carried out to evaluate how farmers in Kyuso District have perceived climate change. Data was collected from 246 farmers from six locations sampled out through a multistage and simple random sampling procedure. The logistic regression analysis was carried out to...

Rainwater harvesting is increasingly seen as a strategy for enhancing agricultural productivity and boosting farm income in many drought prone areas. While extensive efforts are going on in constructing and providing smallholder farmers with water harvesting structures, such as ponds in Rwanda,...

This study was conducted to find out whether dairy farmers could increase their profits through intensification of input use. Data was collected from 150 farmers in three dairy production systems. Data collected included the resources used in milk production, yields obtained, prices of inputs...

Commercialization occurs both between households within the same community, as well as between households and external markets. The drivers of commercialization at household and community level are not yet well understood. The trend in commercialization is increasing in most of the agricultural...

Information asymmetry has traditionally constrained smallholder farmers’ access to markets. Past studies indicate that it contributes to low adoption of modern agricultural technologies that have the capacity to enhance the productivity of smallholder farms. Low use of inputs results in low...

Economic power has been shifting globally from west to east for decades now, largely by-passing the continent of Africa. However, Africa has been drawn into globalisation effects – especially the downsides of liberalised arrival of cheap farm produce from abroad displacing home agricultural...