Livelihoods and vulnerability of smallholder farmers in Samia District, Kenya

Authors
  • N. Pouw
  • A. Schreij
  • H. Odame
  • E. Ogombe
Publication date 2012
Series CABE, policy brief, 1/2012
Number of pages 4
Publisher Nairobi: CABE
Organisations
  • Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences (FMG) - Amsterdam Institute for Social Science Research (AISSR)
Abstract In many sub-Saharan African countries smallholder farmers are vulnerable to food and income insecurity. Population growth, pressure on land, climatic change, and migration affect agricultural production. Transformation of the agricultural sector is seen as crucial to growth in the sector and Kenyan economy. In particular poor farmers are running the risk of falling into a poverty trap of limited farming inputs, low production, nutrition and income deficits, loss of assets & labour, limited farming inputs, etc. In this way, smallholder farmers’ livelihoods can become unsustainable.
Document type Report
Language English
Published at http://cabe-africa.org/images/stories/Livelihoods-and-Vulnerability.pdf
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