dc.contributor.author |
Nyariki, Dickson M. |
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dc.contributor.author |
Thirtle, C. |
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dc.date.accessioned |
2014-12-04T08:14:58Z |
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dc.date.available |
2014-12-04T08:14:58Z |
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dc.date.issued |
2000 |
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dc.identifier.citation |
Agrekon Volume 39, Number 4, December 2000 |
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dc.identifier.issn |
0303-1853 |
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dc.identifier.uri |
http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/03031853.2000.9523676 |
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dc.identifier.uri |
http://hdl.handle.net/123456789/335 |
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dc.description |
DOI: 10.1080/03031853.2000.9523676 |
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dc.description.abstract |
This paper uses non-parametric approach to measure technical innovation and productivity growth at the smallholder farm-level in dry-land sub-Saharan Africa during the initial years of the structural adjustment programmes for agriculture. Data from Kenya for two production years, 1991/2 and 1995/6 are used to construct a Malmquist productivity index. The results show that the rise in input prices led to reduced use of modern inputs, so that efficiency increased at 12% per year. However, lower use of modern varieties and less fertiliser also gave technological regression at 2.5% per annum, so that the overall outcome was productivity growth of 3% per annum. However, productivity improvement cannot be sustainable without technological progress. |
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dc.language.iso |
en |
en_US |
dc.publisher |
Taylor & Francis |
en_US |
dc.title |
Technical innovation and farm productivity growth in dryland Africa: The effects of structural adjustment on smallholders in Kenya |
en_US |
dc.type |
Article |
en_US |