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| Owuor, George; Shem, Ouma A.. |
| The idea that smallholder farmers are reasonably efficient has triggered much debate in Sub-Saharan Africa. Indeed, efficiency of smallholder farmers has implications for choice of development strategy; reason being that Sub-Saharan countries derive over 60% of their livelihoods from smallholder agriculture and rural economic activities. This paper evaluates factors that promote production efficiency among smallholder farmers in Kenya as avenues for policy intervention. A production frontier function was fitted to a random sample derived from a survey carried in 2007. Results show that all conventional inputs had the expected significance. On the inefficiency indicators, ownership to farmland, attendance to agricultural workshops, access to credit and... |
| Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation |
Palavras-chave: Technical Efficiency; Smallholder Farmers; Africa; Productivity Analysis. |
| Ano: 2009 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/52807 |
