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| Nyoro, James K.; Kiiru, M.W.; Jayne, Thomas S.. |
| The objectives of this paper are to: (1) identify the pattern of private sector investment in the maize marketing system since the reforms were initiated and evaluate the extent of private sector response to the reforms; (2) assess how maize prices and marketing margins have changed in response to the market reforms; (3) identify market-oriented mechanisms that have evolved in the current environment to reduce vulnerability of farmers, traders and consumers to price and expenditure instability; and (4) identify strategies that the government and private sector could implement to effectively promote the development of the evolving market oriented food systems. |
| Tipo: Working or Discussion Paper |
Palavras-chave: Food Security; Food Policy; Kenya; Maize; Crop Production/Industries; Marketing. |
| Ano: 1999 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/55148 |
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| Nyoro, James K.; Kirimi, Lilian; Jayne, Thomas S.. |
| The purpose of this study is to assess the costs of maize production in Kenya and Uganda, starting from the fact that there is no single “cost of production” for maize. Cost of production varies according to region, the type of technology package employed, farmers’ management practices, and the weather. In light of this, the study disaggregates cost of production into seven region/technology categories, five in Kenya and two in eastern Uganda, in order to compare the relative competitiveness of maize among these regions and technology packages. Variations in cost of production within each region/technology category reflect differences in farmer management practices and micro-variability in soils and rainfall. |
| Tipo: Working or Discussion Paper |
Palavras-chave: Food Security; Food Policy; Kenya; Uganda; Maize Production; Crop Production/Industries; Q18. |
| Ano: 2004 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/55158 |
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| Jayne, Thomas S.; Yamano, Takashi; Nyoro, James K.. |
| This paper addresses the potential for interlinked credit/input/output marketing arrangements for cash crops to promote food crop intensification. Using panel survey data from Kenya, we estimate a household fixed-effects model of fertilizer use per hectare of food crops. Results indicate that households engaging in interlinked marketing programs for selected cash crops applied considerably more fertilizer on other crops (primarily cereals) not directly purchased by the cash crop trading firm. These findings suggest that, in addition to the direct stimulus that interlinked cash crop marketing arrangements can have on small farmer incomes, these institutional arrangements may provide spillover benefits for the productivity of farmers' other activities such... |
| Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation |
Palavras-chave: Agricultural Finance. |
| Ano: 2003 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/25933 |
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| Nyoro, James K.; Ariga, Joshua. |
| The objective of this study is therefore to take stock or review the existing body of knowledge, distill the main policy issues and findings, and to identify the analytical gaps. The findings and lessons from research will feed into the ongoing debates and policy formulation, and the identified knowledge gaps will help formulate the immediate and long term agricultural policy research agenda. The World Bank will use the results from this inventory to formulate its economic and sector work (ESW) in the rural sector to underpin its policy dialogue and lending program in Kenya. The inventory and the identified gaps will also assist the government in identifying policy research areas to support the implementation of the SRA. The inventory shall have a broad... |
| Tipo: Working or Discussion Paper |
Palavras-chave: Food Security; Food Policy; Agricultural/Rural Sector; Kenya; Research and Development/Tech Change/Emerging Technologies; Q18. |
| Ano: 2004 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/55161 |
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| Ariga, Joshua; Jayne, Thomas S.; Nyoro, James K.. |
| The objective of this study is to identify the factors responsible for the impressive growth in fertilizer use in Kenya since market liberalization in the early 1990s. Over the past 10 years, fertilizer consumption has risen by 35%. So far, it is unknown whether smallholder farmers are responsible for this growth or whether it is being driven mainly by the large-scale and/or estate sectors. Moreover, it is important for policy makers to know whether the increased fertilizer consumption is being devoted to smallholder food crops or whether industrial crops such as tea and sugarcane are responsible for this growth. This study addresses these questions using nationwide survey data on smallholder fertilizer use patterns between 1996 and 2004. The study also... |
| Tipo: Working or Discussion Paper |
Palavras-chave: Food Security; Food Policy; Fertilizer Consumption; Kenya; Crop Production/Industries; Q18. |
| Ano: 2006 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/55167 |
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| Ariga, Joshua; Jayne, Thomas S.; Kibaara, Betty; Nyoro, James K.. |
| This study uses nationwide household panel survey data from 1996/97 to 2006/07 to examine trends in fertilizer use on maize by smallholder maize growers. The paper also compares these findings with fertilizer use rates according to other recent surveys in Kenya to assess comparability. We also examine the correlation between household fertilizer use and indicators of welfare such as wealth and landholding size. In addition, we use econometric techniques applied to household survey data to identify the main household and community characteristics associated with fertilizer purchases. Lastly, the study considers alternative policy strategies for maintaining smallholders’ access to fertilizer in the current context of substantially higher world fertilizer... |
| Tipo: Working or Discussion Paper |
Palavras-chave: Fertilizer; Africa; Malawi; Kenya; Small Holders; Crop Production/Industries; Q13. |
| Ano: 2008 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/55169 |
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| Nyoro, James K.; Wanzala, Maria N.; Awuor, Tom. |
| The objective of this paper is to address the farm level issues that affect the production costs and so the competitiveness of domestic food and commercial production. It compares domestic production prices of key food commodities with the equivalent parity prices to assess the extent to which the domestic prices for maize, wheat, and sugar, and export and domestic crops are competitive. This paper identifies and assesses the factors that influence domestic production costs. It also identifies strategies that could increase food and export crops’ productivity, by that reducing production costs and encourage competitiveness of the domestic production. |
| Tipo: Working or Discussion Paper |
Palavras-chave: Food Security; Food Policy; Kenya; Maize; Wheat; Sugar; Marketing; Q18. |
| Ano: 2001 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/55151 |
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| Jayne, Thomas S.; Myers, Robert J.; Nyoro, James K.. |
| The Government of Kenya pursues maize marketing policy objectives through the National Cereals and Produce Board (NCPB) which procures and sells maize at administratively determined prices, and stores maize as a contingency against future shortages. A private sector marketing channel competes with the NCPB and prices in this channel are set by supply and demand forces. This paper estimates the effects of NCPB activities on the historical path of private sector maize market prices in Kenya between 1989 and 2004. Results provide important insights into the historical effects of the NCPB, and will provide useful input into deliberations on the appropriate role for the NCPB in the future. It was not possible to use a fully structural econometric model to... |
| Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation |
Palavras-chave: Kenya; Income transfers; Maize policy; Price stabilization; VAR; International Development; C22; O2; Q13; Q18. |
| Ano: 2006 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/25555 |
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