To develop soil fertility techniques that respond to farmers’ actual concerns, researchers and agricultural development … response to inputs. Using survey and farm soils data collected in 2002 and 2005 from smallholder farmers in western Kenya, we … study whether farmers’ subjective perceptions of soil fertility and impacts of fertilizer vary statistically with objective …

to invest in soil fertility management while the poorer households in western Kenya are mining nutrients in soils … how farm household land use and socioeconomic factors affect soil fertility. Market access, population growth, socio …, consequently, soil fertility. We used diffuse reflectance infrared spectroscopy to measure soil fertility, and multivariate and …

education, and women's economic empowerment. Despite the many advantages of family planning, its use and adoption in Kenya are …

Farmers and researchers in western Kenya have used community-based learning approaches to jointly develop a ‘dynamic … expertise’ of integrated soil fertility management (ISFM). This transformative learning approach builds on farmers’ ‘folk … strengthening ‘folk ecology’ approach in western Kenya, with emphasis on the community-based learning process, collective and …