Bio-economic evaluation of farmers' perceptions of viable farms in western Kenya
By M. Waithaka, P. K. Thornton, Mario Herrero, Keith D. Shepherd. 2006
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Subfields: Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, General Agricultural and Biological Sciences, Soil Science
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Citations in the corpus
- Economic performance of the ‘push–pull’ technology for stemborer and Striga control in smallholder farming systems in western Kenya (2008, unknown): “Maize prices have been shown to fluctuate each year in the districts under study thereby causing the revenue and net benefits to fluctuate as well (Waithaka et al., 2006).”
- Linking agricultural adaptation strategies, food security and vulnerability: evidence from West Africa (2016, unknown): “This approach is similar to typologies developed in other studies, also based on land area and off-farm income (Waithaka et al. 2006; Tittonell et al. 2010), and contrasts with typologies based only on resource endowment (Ka-manga et al. 2010; Giller et al. 2011).”
- Exploring future changes in smallholder farming systems by linking socio-economic scenarios with regional and household models (2014, methodology): “3 Dairy production is part of the farming system to produce milk for subsistence and for 4 sale, to produce manure for supporting crop production, to provide dairy animals for 5 savings and for social status (Waithaka et al., 2006).”
- Livelihood strategies, resilience and transformability in African agroecosystems (2014, background): “Earlier studies in the Kenya highlands indicated minimum thresholds in farm sizes to ensure viability of smallholder farming to be around 0.4 ha – about one acre (Salasya, 2005; Waithaka et al., 2006), which is not far from the current average farm sizes in Vihiga district (Table 2).”