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Agricultural Extension in Kenya: Practice and Policy Lessons
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Muyanga,   Milu; Jayne,   Thomas S.
A consensus exists that extension services, if functioning effectively, improve agricultural productivity through providing farmers with information that helps them to optimize their use of limited resources. Variations in management practices and husbandry skills among small farmers in Kenya are very great. Tremendous poverty-reducing benefits could be reaped by bringing the production costs of the most inefficient farmers to mean productivity levels. Achieving these gains in maize production efficiency will depend on many factors, but extension is likely to be among the most important. Therefore, the costs to the nation of having an underperforming extension service – in terms of smallholder productivity, incomes, and poverty reduction, and the ability...
Tipo: Working or Discussion Paper
Palavras-chave: Extension services; Kenya; Policy reforms; Privatization; Teaching/Communication/Extension/Profession; Q18.
Ano: 2006
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/55168

Pathways into and out of Poverty:  A Study of Household Wealth Dynamics in Rural Kenya
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Muyanga,   Milu; Jayne,   Thomas S.; Burke,   William J.
For the past half-century, African governments and development agencies have experimented with a series of alternative approaches for addressing rural poverty, each giving way to a new paradigm as the persistence of poverty created disillusionment with prevailing approaches. These broad strategies included ‘growth and trickle down’ in the 1960s; basic human needs and state-led integrated rural development in the 1970s; structural adjustment and economic liberalization in the 1980s and 1990s; and, since 2000, a heterodox mix of donor budget support to empower government ownership in the design of participatory poverty reduction strategies, and resurgent interest in agricultural development. However, rural poverty in most of Sub-Saharan Africa appears to be...
Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation
Palavras-chave: Poverty; Assets; Shocks; Intergenerational transfers; Kenya; Food Security and Poverty; International Development.
Ano: 2011
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/103377

Staple Food Consumption Patterns in Urban Kenya: Trends and Policy Implications
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Muyanga,   Milu; Jayne,   Thomas S.; Argwings-Kodhek,   Gem; Ariga,   Joshua.
This study examines current consumption patterns of the main staple carbohydrate products in Nairobi -- maize, wheat, rice, and cooking bananas -- in an effort to update policy makers’ knowledge of current urban food consumption patterns. The study also identifies the factors driving changes in the amount and form of urban maize meal consumption, in order to better understand how food security policy should be designed to respond to the needs of low-income consumers. The study reveals how consumption and expenditure patterns differ according to household income. The study also examines whether the marketing channels used by the poor to secure their staple carbohydrate products differ from those used by relatively high-income consumers. The data used in...
Tipo: Working or Discussion Paper
Palavras-chave: Food Security; Food Policy; Maize; Wheat; Rice; Kenya; Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety; Q18.
Ano: 2005
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/55163

A Farm Gate-to-Consumer Value Chain Analysis of Kenya’s Maize Marketing System
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Kirimi,   Lilian; Sitko,   Nicholas J.; Jayne,   Thomas S.; Karin,   Francis; Muyanga,   Milu; Sheahan,   Megan; Flock,   James; Bor,   Gilbert.
Based on the findings of this study, the following actions are proposed for consideration by the Government of Kenya: 1. Raise public investment in maize seed breeding and agronomic research to make it possible for improvements in smallholder crop productivity. Based on research evaluating the returns to alternative investments in agriculture, public expenditures in maize seed breeding and agronomy may constitute the single most important investment to promote broad-based productivity growth and poverty reduction in Kenya. 2. Explore options for improving public and private extension programs to enable farmers to adopt improved farm technologies generated from point 1. 3. Examine options for bringing more land in Kenya under potential cultivation by...
Tipo: Working or Discussion Paper
Palavras-chave: Kenya; Maize; Marketing; Food security; Agricultural and Food Policy; Food Security and Poverty.
Ano: 2011
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/101172