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Library ResourceDocuments de politique et mémoiresdécembre, 2003Afrique orientale, Afrique sub-saharienne, Afrique, Kenya
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Library ResourcePublication évaluée par des pairsRapports et recherchesdécembre, 2005Afrique orientale, Afrique sub-saharienne, Afrique, Kenya
Western Kenya is one of the most densely populated areas in Africa. Farming there is characterized by low inputs and low crop productivity. Poverty is rampant in the region. Yet the potential for agriculture is considered good. In the study described here, researchers looked specifially at soil fertility replenishment (SFR) systems...Focused on two specific systems -- the tree-based "improved fallow" system and the biomass transfer system -- the study compared rates of adoption in poor and nonpoor communities and evaluated the extent to which their adoption reduced poverty.
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Library ResourceDocuments de politique et mémoiresdécembre, 2005Afrique orientale, Afrique sub-saharienne, Afrique, Kenya
Western Kenya is one of the most densely populated areas in Africa. Farming there is characterized by low inputs and low crop productivity. Poverty is rampant in the region. Yet the potential for agriculture is considered good.
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Library ResourceDocuments de politique et mémoiresdécembre, 2007Afrique orientale, Kenya
Over the last two decades, several seed-related programs have been initiated in eastern Kenya to improve farmers’ access to quality seeds of dryland cereals and legumes. They are provided during two occasions, regular and emergency times. But very often, the formal supply mechanisms limit their role in provision of seeds other than maize. In the absence of any formalized systems of seed provision for other dryland crops, such as sorghum and pigeon pea, farmers have preferred local markets for their seed needs, especially during distress periods.
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Library ResourceDocuments de politique et mémoiresdécembre, 2003Afrique orientale, Afrique sub-saharienne, Afrique, Kenya
This case study explores the relationships between agroforestry-based soil fertility replenishment (SFR) systems (improved follows and biomass transfer) and poverty reduction in rural western Kenya. It further examines the role that different dissemination aproaches play in the conditioning which segments of society gain access to information to the technlolgies and then uses them.
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Library ResourceArticles et Livresdécembre, 2004Afrique, Afrique sub-saharienne, Mali, Kenya
Agricultural growth will prove essential for improving the welfare of the vast majority of Africa’s poor. Roughly 80 percent of the continent’s poor live in rural areas, and even those who do not will depend heavily on increasing agricultural productivity to lift them out of poverty. Seventy percent of all Africans— and nearly 90 percent of the poor—work primarily in agriculture. As consumers, all of Africa’s poor—both urban and rural—count heavily on the efficiency of the continent’s farmers.
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Documents de politique et mémoiresdécembre, 2004Afrique orientale, Afrique sub-saharienne, Afrique, KenyaThis case study explores the development, dissemination, adoption, and impact of improved tree fallows in rural western Kenya. The processes of technology development and dissemination throughout the region are described and analyzed. To analyze adoption and impact, the paper applies a variety of different data collection methods as well as samples from both pilot areas where researchers maintained a significant presence and non-pilot areas where farmers learned of the technologies through other channels.
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Library ResourceRapports et recherchesdécembre, 2004Afrique orientale, Afrique sub-saharienne, Afrique, Kenya
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Library ResourceDocuments de politique et mémoiresdécembre, 2008Kenya, Afrique orientale, Afrique sub-saharienne
"Smallholder producers in marginal and semiarid areas of eastern Kenya have not benefited greatly from research investments made in improvement of crops grown in such environments (sorghum, millet, and legumes, including pigeonpea) either by the international community or the national agricultural research system because of poorly developed seed systems. However, informal and local market purchases are the major sources of seed for non-maize cereals and legumes.
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Library ResourceArticles et Livresdécembre, 1995Afrique orientale, Afrique sub-saharienne, Afrique, Kenya
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