Browsing Tegemeo Institute by Author "Olwande, John"

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Consumption and Expenditures on Key Food Commodities in Urban Households: The Case of Nairobi

Kamau, Mercy; Olwande, John; Githuku, James (Egerton University, 2011)

According to the Kenya Integrated Household Survey of 2005/6, Kenyan households spend the largest proportion of their budget on food. The largest proportion of their food budget is on staples. Although staples continue to ...
Consumption and Expenditures on Key Food Commodities in Urban Households: The Case of Nairobi

Kamau, Mercy; Olwande, John; Githuku, James (Tegemeo Institute, 2011)

Abstract According to the Kenya Integrated Household Survey of 2005/6, Kenyan households spend the largest proportion of their budget on food. The largest proportion of their food budget is on staples. Although staples ...
Food Security in Urban Households: An Analysis of the Prevalence and Depth of Hunger in Nairobi and its Relationship to Food Expenditure

Kamau, Mercy; Githuku, James; Olwande, John (Tegemeo Institute, 2011)

Abstract Thirty percent (3 million) of the food insecure in Kenya are located in the urban and peri-urban centres making urban food insecurity and poverty a major concern. Because markets are the main source of food for ...
The Impact of Maize Hybrids on Income, Poverty and Inequality among Smallholder farmers in Kenya

Mathenge, Mary K.; Smale, Melinda; Olwande, John (Tegemeo Institute, 2012)

Introduction: For decades, Kenya has been depicted a maize “success story” in Sub-Saharan Africa, known for rates of hybrid maize adoption during the 1960s and 70s that paralleled those of the U.S. Corn Belt thirty years ...
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 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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Is Older Better? Maize Hybrid Change on Household Farms in Kenya

Smale, Melinda; Olwande, John (Tegemeo Institute, 2011)

Abstract A globally-recognized maize “success story” since the 1970s, Kenya’s first maize hybrid diffused faster than did hybrids in the U.S Corn Belt during the 1930s-1940s. Today, a hybrid released in 1986 still ...
Market participation among poor rural households in Kenya

Olwande, John (Tegemeo Institute, 2011)

Abstract About 80% of Kenya’s population live in rural areas, with half of this proportion being poor. The rural population mainly depends on small scale agriculture for food and income, suggesting that 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 ...
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. ...
Targeting of Subsidized Fertilizer Under Kenya's National Accelerated Agricultural Input Access Program (NAAIAP)

Sheahan, Megan; Olwande, John; Kirimi, Lilian; Jayne, T.S. (Tegemeo Institute, 2014)

Abstract A new wave of “market smart” modern input subsidy schemes has emerged in sub-Saharan Africa over the past decade with the promise of increasing input use and grain yields while building or complementing private ...

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