Linking Household Food Security and Food Value Chains in North West Mt. Kenya

Mwangi, Veronica; Owuor, Samuel; Kiteme, Boniface; Giger, Markus; Jacobi, Johanna; Kirui, Oliver K.

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“…Moreover, farmers groups also allow members to share their experiences among farmers and other existing groups. This result is consistent with several earlier studies conducted in Zambia, and Kenya [24,33]. This finding suggested that supporting farmers' association and the empowerment of existing formal and informal groups, mainly through mobilizing of community, should be encouraged by government and private organizations.…”

Section: Factors Affecting Household Food Insecurity Prevalencesupporting

confidence: 92%

“…The severity of food insecurity and vulnerability of farming households mostly depends on poor agricultural practice [13,14]. Farming households have significant potential to increase food security by ensuring the accessibility of food through production, decreasing food costs through an increased food supply, and generating income [24]. However, Afghanistan faces problems in reaching food security: their production remains low and hampered by several elements such as a lack of agricultural inputs, credit access, extension service, farmer organization, and market access [25][26][27].…”

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“…These variations of food security are influenced by demographic factors (age, gender, marital status, family size, and dependency ratio), economic factors (farm input, land size, livestock ownership, credit access, membership, and extension access), farm income, and non-agricultural income flood, farm diseases, and war; these factors affect food insecurity through the agricultural production channels and rural income [32][33][34][35]. The magnitude and direction of the association among these parameters and farming households' food insecurity vary across studies [3,24,[34][35][36][37][38]. For example, a study was conducted on household food insecurity in East Africa by Gebre and Rahut [4], and results indicated that age of a head of household, family size, and crop loss, are positively significant, and education level, household income, borrowing money from informal and formal, group members, and livestock unit are negatively associated with prevalent household food insecurity.…”

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Food Insecurity and Related Factors among Farming Families in Takhar Region, Afghanistan

Samim

Stępień

et al. 2021

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Improved food security remains a major challenge for policymakers in Afghanistan. The objective of this study is to investigate the prevalence and drivers of food insecurity among farming households in the Takhar region of Afghanistan. Household questionnaire survey datasets were obtained from 262 farmers via multi-stage sampling across four districts. The Household Food Insecurity Access Scale (HFIAS) was constructed to assess the prevalence of food insecurity, and an ordered probit econometric model was used to identify the factors influencing the prevalence rates in farming families. The findings indicate that 66.79% of the farming households were food insecure, whilst 30.53% were severely food insecure. After adjustment of socio-economic and demographic characteristics of families, the ordered probit results reveals that household head education, dependency ratio, farm income, access to non-agricultural income, livestock unit, group membership, borrowing, farm diseases, flood, and war significantly influenced farming households’ food insecurity in the study area. Our findings highlight the urgent requirement for policies and initiatives to support farmers to improve their overall food security. Such strategies should focus on introducing improved farming techniques, enhancing farmer education levels, livestock development programs, building and empowering farmers groups, creating credit access to households, and providing humanitarian food support.

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Section: Factors Affecting Household Food Insecurity Prevalencesupporting

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Food Insecurity and Related Factors among Farming Families in Takhar Region, Afghanistan

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“…This is an indication that smallholders may have the possibility to benefit as such from economies of scale by being organized in groups. Studies (Thomas et al, 2011;Fischer and Qaim, 2014;Mukhovi et al, 2020;Mwangi et al, 2020) have shown that smallholder farmers in developing countries like Kenya obtain economic and social benefits such as improved access to markets and market-related services, credit, information and training from group membership. With the devolution of agriculture in Kenya, we advocate for county-level government support to strengthen farmer groups.…”

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Assessing Smallholder Farmer's Participation in the Wheat Value Chain in North-West Mt. Kenya

Mwangi¹,

Owuor²,

Kiteme³

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Front. Sustain. Food Syst.

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Wheat is the second most important carbohydrate staple in Kenya and is produced by both smallholder and large-scale farmers. Smallholders are the majority, but produce <20% of the total national production. Compared to large-scale farmers, they have been considered to be less efficient producers and thus fail to benefit fully from their participation in the wheat value chain. This study aims at establishing the value accruing to smallholder and large-scale farmers participating in wheat production in north-west Mt. Kenya. For comparative purposes and to explore the potential of smallholder farmers, a sample of 58 smallholder and seven large-scale farmers was selected for the study. We use budget analysis to determine the gross output, cost of production and gross margins attained by the smallholder and large-scale farmers. Further, an analysis of constraints to productivity is done to establish the factors hindering farmers from reaching high yield potential. Results of the study show that smallholder farmers obtain lower yields, have higher costs of production per bag of wheat and lower gross margins compared to large-scale farmers. High cost of inputs, low market prices, low bargaining power, high cost of machinery services, diseases and weeds were among factors excluding smallholder farmers from benefitting from their participation in the value chain. However, results also show that smallholder farmers can produce wheat profitably albeit with necessary support. Thus, interventions should consider these constraints and aim at improving smallholder farmers' horizontal and vertical integration in the value chain. We recommend continued investment in research and development on wheat, adoption of climate resilient agricultural practices, improvements in the fertilizer subsidy programme and creating or increasing participation in producer groups that will provide possibilities of increased bargaining power and reduction of costs through improved access to machinery services, markets and credit.

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“…Sub-Saharan Africa is the only region in the world where more than one-third of the population suffers from widespread hunger, and smallholder farmers, who produce more than 80% of Africa's food, face caloric and micronutrient deficiencies [76]. South Africa and Kenya are representative of the region, where 61% of households suffer from mild, moderate, or severe food insecurity [77]. Studies from this region study focused primarily on smallholder farmers.…”

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Global Trends on Food Security Research: A Bibliometric Analysis

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Wen

Choi

et al. 2021

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The issue of food security has been widely studied by the international community. To reveal the research situation as it pertains to food security objectively, this paper comprehensively utilizes bibliometrics techniques (i.e., Bibliometrix, VOSviewer, and CiteSpace) to explore the research status and development trends in the area of food security. The results show that: (1) food security research has shown an increasing trend during the past 30 years. The 2013–2019 period was shown to be an active period with a high yield of articles, which were published mainly in the developed regions of Europe and America. Particularly, the number of articles published in the United States was far ahead of other countries in the world. (2) Food security research involved agriculture, environmental science and ecology, food science and technology, and business economics. The research topic is an interdisciplinary subject with a good momentum of development and a large space remaining for research. (3) Climate change, poverty, gender, nutrition, and diet structure have been the focuses of food security research in recent years. Food security in China, India, and sub-Saharan Africa has attracted wide attention. (4) Food security research is becoming more and more mature. The research scope extended from food security to food security and water and land resource security. Research topics range from decentralized to systematic. (5) Food security research is likely to gain much attention in the future based on three pillars: food supply, food access, and food use. Sustainability and diversity of food supply, along with dietary restructuring and food conservation initiatives, are expected to be new trends in future research on land management.

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Linking Household Food Security and Food Value Chains in North West Mt. Kenya

Cited by 8 publications

References 13 publications

Food Insecurity and Related Factors among Farming Families in Takhar Region, Afghanistan

Food Insecurity and Related Factors among Farming Families in Takhar Region, Afghanistan

Assessing Smallholder Farmer's Participation in the Wheat Value Chain in North-West Mt. Kenya

Global Trends on Food Security Research: A Bibliometric Analysis

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