Introduction: For decades, Kenya has been depicted a maize “success story” in Sub-Saharan Africa, known for rates of hybrid maize adoption during the 1960s and 70s that paralleled those of the U.S. Corn Belt thirty years ...

Abstract Worldwide, most poor people live in rural areas and depend directly on agricultural land for most of their food, making them vulnerable to environmental changes such as land degradation. This study provides ...

We derive input demand functions for fertiliser and hybrid seed, testing for the combined and separate effects of income from non-farm sources and agricultural wage labour among smallholder maize farmers in Kenya. More ...

Abstract Currently, Kenyan farmers produce a minority share of the national wheat and rice consumption needs. As shown by the dramatic increase in the import bill between 2003 and 2008, reliance on the international market ...