Kenya confirmed its first case of COVID-19 on 12 March 2020. Like many governments across the world, the Kenyan government implemented various measures aimed at slowing down local spread of the virus and cushioning the ...
Seed systems in Africa south of the Sahara are a topic of much interest in the public discourse on
policy options for agriculture and rural development. The seed systems of countries in the region
have followed different ...
An analysis of the Agricultural Sector Expenditures (AgSER) at County level was carried for
the period between 2014/15 -2016/17. The analysis focusses on three broad areas (i) budget
allocation, and composition in the ...
Kimenju, Simon C.; Qaim, Matin(Egerton University, 2016-09)
We analyze how the nutrition transition, which involves a westernization of diets and increased consumption of calorie-dense, processed foods, affects child malnutrition in developing countries. It is often assumed that ...
Njeru, Timothy N.; Mano, Yukichi; Otsuka, Keijiro(Egerton University, 2014-08)
This study investigates the possibility of boosting rice production in Sub-Saharan Africa with a special focus on the role of access to credit in rice farming in the large-scale Mwea Irrigation Scheme in Kenya. Using ...
Mathenge, Mary K.; Smale, Melinda; Tschirley, David(Egerton University, 2014-09)
We derive input demand functions for fertiliser and hybrid seed, testing for the
combined and separate effects of income from non-farm sources and agricultural
wage labour among smallholder maize farmers in Kenya. More ...
This study measures how Kenyan farmers and farming systems have responded to changes in population density and associated land pressures. Kenya is a relatively densely populated area, with 40% of its rural people residing ...
tAgriculture is the mainstay of the Kenyan economy, contributing to food security and employment ofrural households. Climate variability and change have adversely affected this sector and the situation isexpected to worsen ...
Kenya is a globally recognized maize “success story.” As the overall percentage of maize farmers growing hybrids tops 80% and the seed industry matures, the slow pace of hybrid replacement on farms, and the continued ...
This study evaluated the effect of the national fertiliser subsidy on farmer participation in commercial fertiliser markets in the North Rift region of Kenya. The study used primary data collected from 710 households. A ...
waves of nationally representative population-based and/or area-based surveys. Analysis indicates that much of Sub-Saharan Africa is experiencing major changes in farm land ownership patterns. Among all farms below 100 ...
Climate change has had a significant impact on rain-fed agricultural production in developing countries. Smallholder farmers are the most vulnerable, and currently must make production decisions in a high risk and uncertain ...
Studies of improved seed adoption in developing countries are almost always based on household surveys and are premised on the assumption that farmers can accurately self-report their use of improved seed varieties. However, ...