Introduction: Title II-funded NGOs in Kenya administer a range of interventions designed to enhance the welfare of rural households in vulnerable areas of the country. Many of these interventions are oriented towards ...

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 ...

Government intervenes in the maize market in various ways either to increase domestic production or to increase/reduce maize imports. While such actions have the potential to influence maize prices positively or negatively, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

A large proportion of small-scale farmers in Eastern and Southern Africa are resource-constrained in terms of productive assets. Their agricultural productive capacity is low and they remain staple food buyers. As a result, ...