Kenya

Publications

discussion paper

Intertemporal choice and income regularity: Non-fungibility in a lab-in-the-field experiment

2017

Motivated by evidence of mental accounting, this paper tests whether the choice of when to be paid depends on the income type. A lab-in-the-field experiment in Kenya asked dairy cooperative members to allocate both their regular milk payments and an…

project paper

Incentives and subsidies for farmer adoption of food safety technologies

2017

Unsafe food is a major cause of disease in developing countries, accounting for an estimated 2 million deaths per year globally and comprising a burden of illness comparable to that of malaria or tuberculosis (WHO, 2015). Reducing the risk of…

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Data & Tools

dataset

ASTI Kenya database

2014

Working through collaborative alliances with numerous national and regional R&D agencies and international institutions, Agricultural Science and Technology Indicators (ASTI) is a comprehensive and trusted source of information on agricultural R&D…

dataset

Food Policy Research Capacity Indicators

2013

The motivation to measure food policy research capacity stems from a pressing need to understand what a country's primary constraints are in undertaking food policy research and using it effectively in the policy process. With such understanding,…

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Blogs

IFPRI Blog

World Milk Day: How Kenyan dairy farmers manage their money

Jun 1, 2017 | Berber Kramer

New research shows how dairy cooperative membership shapes farmers' economic decision-making.

IFPRI Blog

Why brutalizing food vendors hits Africa’s growing cities where it hurts

Apr 28, 2017 | Danielle Resnick

With food demand rising, it's time for local governments in Africa to embrace rather than quash informal food markets and vendors.

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Related Events

Policy Seminar

IFPRI Roundtable on Next Harvest II

Feb 20, 2015

IFPRI’s 2014 report “GM Technologies for Africa: A State of Affairs” identified the lack of standardized and uniformly collected biotech data as a main constraint in assessing the overall state of Africa’s agricultural biotechnology capacity and in…

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Programs & Projects

Project

Women and Climate

Enhancing Women’s Assets to Manage Risk under Climate Change: Potential for Group-Based Approaches The project explores ways to contribute to poverty reduction in Sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia (especially Bangladesh, Ethiopia, Kenya, and Mali)…

Project

GAAP

Gender, Agriculture, and Assets Project Evaluating the Impacts of Agricultural Development Programming on Gender Inequalities, Asset Disparities, and Rural Livelihoods The project looks at a variety of agricultural development projects to what is the…

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