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In East Africa coco yam is considered an "orphan crop" and for a long time it has not been given attention when allocating farm resources. The book examines coco yam production and its impact on household food security.This study arose from the need to understand how the available wetlands could be sustainably used by the food insecure farmers in the study area. The main objective of the book is to assess the contribution of coco yams to household food security. Data was collected through the administration of 138 questionnaires to randomly selected farmers. Regression and cross tabulation...

The liberalization of smallholder tea sector in Kenya was carried out with the aim of replacing a vertically integrated production- marketing system of providing services to farmers by a broad system run by different institutions. Structure, Conduct and Performance framework was used to describe the structure of the market after liberalization. The results indicate that smallholder tea farmers have more channels for their produce after liberalization. The concentration ratios of four and eight largest farmers were 0.27 and 0.41 indicating low to moderate concentration which closely...

Kenyas indigenous forests continue to face severe degradation from the adjacent communities who depend on the natural resource. Wass (1995) estimated the people living adjacent to forests in Kenya to be approximately 2.9 million. This is almost a tenth of the total population. This book assesses the influence of different socioeconomic factors on Households Willingness to Pay (WTP) for forest conservation using Contingent Valuation Method (WTP).This book uses a study that was carried out in Mount Elgon District of Kenya using a sample size of 120 households. Multistage and purposive sampling...