Elements of agricultural extension policy in Kenya: Challenges and opportunities. African Crop Science Conference Proceedings, Vol. 7, 1491-1494. Uganda.Kibett JK, Omunyin ME, Muchiri J (2005). Elements of agricultural extension policy in Kenya: Challenges and opportunities. Afr. Crop Sci. ...
Opportunities and Challenges for Sustainable Agricultural Land Management in Kenya 来自 ir-library.ku.ac.ke 喜欢 0 阅读量: 38 作者: F Waswa 摘要: Despite technological advances in land management (i.e. use, care and improvement) across the world, land degradation not only persists, but also ...
Thus, changing economic opportunities in agriculture – in particular, liberalizing agricultural trade – can significantly affect global poverty and inequality. Direct effects of this liberalization will entail changes in the international prices of agricultural products and in the returns of factors used ...
allow the growing of a single high-return crop (Kandulu et al., 2012). Diversification may also be appropriate in relatively intensive mixed systems such as those of western Kenya, where poverty rates are high, farm sizes are small, and households obtain some 65 per cent of their income ...
In many parts of Africa, soil erosion is an important problem, which is evident from high sediment yields in tropical montane streams. Previous studies in Kenya pointed to a large contribution from catchments cultivated by smallholder farmers. This led t
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This elicited the national government to draft a strategy (the national root and tuber crops development strategy 2019–2022) to help in upscaling their production. This was an initiative of the national government of Kenya, but it was being supported by other key stakeholders such as the ...
While contributing to the reduction of the energy deficit and the creation of numerous employment opportunities, the exploitation of these renewable energies or biofuels would constitute new outlets to ensure an important source of income in the whole country. Livestock farming deserves a particular ...
Partnering with public extension in Tanzania (TARI-Naliendele) and a private extension provider in Kenya (Lutheran World Relief, an NGO), we designed and created Ushauri: a customizable software template that allows setting up an interactive voice response (IVR) hotline with pre-recorded agro-...
(2017) find no significant effect of industry and NGO-led certification schemes on horticulture farms’ adoption of environmental practices in Kenya. In contrast, there is a stronger literature in the agri-food space on the effectiveness of multi-stakeholder and NGO-led certification schemes on ...