This research report by Eilleen T. Kennedy is part of a major IFPRI effort to assess the effects of the commercialization of agriculture on production, consumption, and nutritional status of rural people in Africa, Asia, and Central America countries. It reports on the continuation of survey work first undertaken at the request of the government of Kenya in 1983. The original survey work was analyzed in Research Report 63, Incomes and Nutrition Effects of the Commercialization of Agriculture in Southwestern Kenya. The follow-up study described in this report a rare opportunity to examine longitudinal data on a group of farmers in three periods: before they entered a contract arrangement for growing a commercial crop- sugarcane; during the period before... |