• Improving Participation in Agricultural Commodity Markets for Smallholder Avocado Farmers in Kenya: Assessing Growth Opportunities for Women in Kandara and Marani Districts 

  Oduol, Judith; Place, Frank; Mithöfer, Dagmar; Olwande, John; Kirimi, Lilian; Mathenge, Mary (Tegemeo Institute, 2013-10)

  Well-functioning factor and product markets can provide the poor, particularly smallholder farmers and the landless, with avenues for wealth creation, thereby expediting poverty and food insecurity alleviation. Yet in ...
• Improving Participation in Agricultural Commodity Markets for Smallholder Sweet Potato Farmers in Kenya: Assessing Growth Opportunities for Women in Rachuonyo District 

  Olwande, John; Kirimi, Lilian; Mathenge, Mary; Oduol, Judith; Mithöfer, Dagmar; Place, Frank (Tegemeo Institute, 2013-10)

  Agricultural growth is fundamental to broader economic growth and to successful poverty reduction in sub-Saharan Africa, where high concentration of the poor population is in agriculture sector and where smallholder ...
• Participation in Agricultural Markets among the Poor and Marginalized: Analysis of Factors Influencing Participation and Impacts on Income and Poverty in Kenya 

  Mathenge, Mary; Place, Frank; Olwande, John; Mithoefer, Dagmar (Tegemeo Institute, 2010-07)

  Poverty in Africa has been found to be predominantly a rural phenomenon. About 75 percent of the world’s poor are believed to work and live in rural areas, and it is estimated that, by the year 2020, 60 percent of the poor ...
• Improving Participation in Agricultural Commodity Markets: Assessing Growth Opportunities for Women in the Indigenous Chicken Value Chain in Bomet and Mwala Districts 

  Kirim, Lilian; Olwande, John; Mathenge, Mary; Oduo, Judith; Mithöfer, Dagmar; Place, Frank (Tegemeo Institute, 2013-10)

  Agricultural growth is expected to lead to broader economic growth and successful poverty reduction, because of high concentration of the poor in this sector, its strong growth linkages with other sectors and its potential ...
• Opportunities and Challenges for Cooperatives and Farmer Groups 

  Ariga, Joshua; Nyoro, James (Tegemeo Institute, 2019)

  It has become a general trend in the world that countries with similar political, regional, cultural, social, economic aspects and needs are merging into economic blocks. The reasons for this phenomenon are varied ...
• Wheat Farmers’ Seed Management and Varietal Adoption in Kenya 

  Gamba, Paul; Ngugi, Caroline; Verkuijl, Hugo; Mwangi, Wilfred; Kiriswa, Frank (Tegemeo Institute, 2003-11)

  Wheat is the second most important crop in Kenya after maize and is becoming an important source of food both for humans and livestock. Despite increasing wheat production, only 50% of domestic consumption requirements are ...
• Agriculture and Rural Growth in Kenya 

  Nyoro, James K. (Tegemeo Institute, 2019)

  Agricultural growth is important for alleviation of poverty and stimulation of economic growth and development. Sustainable poverty reduction can only be possible through economic growth and development strategies. The ...
• Urban Maize Meal Consumption Patterns: Strategies for Improving Food Access for Vulnerable Urban Households in Kenya 

  Mukumbu, Mulinge; Jayne, T.S (Tegemeo Institute, 2019)

  The case for structural adjustment and food market reform, while widely accepted by donors and international analysts, has not been fully convincing to many African policy makers. Even though numerous African governments ...
• Improving Participation in Agricultural Commodity Markets for Smallholder Farmers in Kenya: Assessing Growth Opportunities for Women 

  Kirimi, Lilian; Mathenge, Mary; Olwande, John; Oduol, Judith; Mithöfer, Dagmar; Place, Frank (Tegemeo Institute, 2013-10)

  Agricultural growth, especially in the early phases of development, is fundamental to broader economic growth and successful poverty reduction. This is because of high concentration of the poor in this sector, its strong ...
• Poverty Assessment in Rural Kenya: Explaining Trends in FTF ZOI 

  Ayieko, Miltone; Njagi, Tim; Olwande, John; Muyanga, Milu; Opiyo, Joseph; Onyango, Kevin (Tegemeo Institute, 2017-04)

  This study examines determinants, trends and dynamics of rural poverty in Kenya using data collected in 2013 and 2015 from USAID’s Feed the Future (FTF) program zones of influence, Two methods are pursued in this study. ...
• Sorghum Production in Kenya: Farm-level Characteristics, Constraints and Opportunities 

  Njagi, Tim; Onyango, Kevin; Kirimi, Lilian; Makau, Joyce (Tegemeo Institute, 2019-03)

  Sorghum (Sorghum bicolor (L) Moench), is a cereal crop quantitatively ranked the world’s fifth most important cereal grain after wheat, maize, rice and barley. Sorghum cultivation is mainly practised in developing countries ...
• Trends in Regional Agricultural Productivity in Kenya 

  Nyoro, K. James; Jayne, T.S. (Tegemeo Institute, 2019)

  Agriculture in Kenya remains a dominant sector in the economy (PAM 1995). Agriculture s contribution to rural employment, foreign exchange earning and rural incomes are so important that any broad-based improvement in ...
• Successes and Challenges of Food Market Reform: Experiences from Kenya, Mozambique, Zambia, and Zimbabwe 

  Jayne, T.S.; Mukumbu, Mulinge; Chisvo, Munhamo; Tschirley, David; Zulu, Ballard; Weber, Michael T.; Johansson, Robert; Santos, Paula; Soroko, David (Tegemeo Institute, 2019)

  Governments in Eastern and Southern Africa have fundamentally transformed their food economies over the past decade. This restructuring has taken place amidst severe macroeconomic crises and periodic drought. Despite the ...
• How can Micro-Level Household Information Make a Difference for Agricultural Policy Making? 

  Argwings-Kodhek, Gem; Jayne, T.S.; Nyambane, Gerald; Awuor, Tom; Yamano, T. (Tegemeo Institute, 2019)

  Agriculture forms the foundation of Kenya’s economy. However, the information base on agriculture % including basic indicators on farmers’ input, production, and marketing behavior, household food consumption patterns, ...
• Credit Constraints, Off-Farm Participation and Productivity; Case of Kenyan Rural Sector 

  Njeru, Timothy Njagi; Wainaina, Priscilla; Onyango, Kevin (Tegemeo Institute, 2017)

  Abstract: Credit constraint among small holder farmers still remains one of the impediments to the much needed increase in agricultural productivity in sub-Saharan Africa. Without these constraints, farmers would be ...
• Land Tenure and the Sustainability of Pastoral Productive Systems: A Comparative Institutional Analysis of the Andean Altiplano and the East African Savannah 

  Damonte, Gerardo; Njagi, Tim; Kirimi, Lilian; Glave, Manuel; Rodriguez, Sandra (Tegemeo Institute, 2017)

  Executive Summary Pastoralism is the main production system practised in rangelands and drylands, providing livelihoods to an estimated 500 million people globally. Alternative land production systems are not feasible ...
• Effects of County Cess on Costs and Returns in the Maize and Irish Potatoes Sectors in Kenya 

  Kinyumu, Ephiphania-; Odhiambo, Nicholas; Kimenju, Simon; Kirimi, Lilian (Tegemeo Institute, 2018)

  Executive summary: The agricultural sector in Kenya contributes about 25.4% of GDP, supports nearly 80% of the rural population and accounts for 65% of total exports (RoK, 2015). Despite the importance of the sector to ...
• The Status of the Agricultural Sector after Devolution to County Governments 

  Njagi, Timothy; Kirimi, Lilian; Onyango, Kevin; Kinyumu, Ephiphania (Tegemeo Institute, 2018)

  Executive Summary The agriculture sector has over the years been the largest contributor to our country’s economic growth. In recent years, the sector has undergone a number of institutional changes – the most significant ...
• Farm Household’s Participation in Governance: Lessons From Devolved Systems in Kenya 

  Kinyumu, Ephiphania; Njagi, Tim; Kirimi, Lilian (Tegemeo Institute, 2017)

  Abstract Citizen participation is widely recognized as a critical strategy for improving governance as it is seen to increase the efficiency of public service delivery, government responsiveness to local needs, and ...
• Factors Affecting the Distribution and Use of Fertilizer in Kenya: Preliminary Assessment 

  Mose, Lawrence O. (Tegemeo Institute, 2019)

  About 80% of Kenya’s population lives in rural areas, and most of these households are dependent on agriculture for a large part of their livelihood. Increased productivity of the millions of people engaged in agriculture ...

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