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 ...

Abstract We use panel data from a sample of smallholder farmers in Kenya to test how the effects of nonfarm earnings on demand for fertilizer vary across different crops, namely: a major food staple (maize), an emerging ...

Abstract Currently, Kenyan farmers produce a minority share of the national wheat and rice consumption needs. As shown by the dramatic increase in the import bill between 2003 and 2008, reliance on the international market ...