The impact of irrigation on small-scale African indigenous vegetable growers’ market access in peri-urban Kenya

Kanyua, Mwangi J.; Crewett, Wibke

doi:10.1016/j.agwat.2018.06.036

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“…Marginal farmers lack the financial means and/or secured permanent ownership of land to follow an expansion or intensification strategy [33,42]. Their possible alternative production strategies require more time because their adaption capacities are weaker [43].…”

Section: Different Strategies To Cope With Changing Accessmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…In some regions, where the water table is depleting fast, farmers face the option to 'go deep or quit' [46,47], i.e., to invest in deeper borewells or seek alternative occupations. Failure in water governance result in worse access to water for female farmers [42]. Especially marginal farmers have to quit who lack the financial means to invest in deep boreholes [24,47,48].…”

Section: Different Strategies To Cope With Changing Accessmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Wealthier farmers have more options to become winners of transformation processes. They can respond by intensifying their production as the demand for fresh vegetables, meat and dairy products by the growing urban population increases while the available land for agriculture decreases [42,45,46,[52][53][54]. In this way they can generate additional income for their households.…”

Section: Different Strategies To Cope With Changing Accessmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…These current developments in periurban agriculture are mainly judged as unsustainable transformations [42,46]. A transformation to sustainability needs to take into account the multiple tasks periurban agriculture can fulfil, including its contribution to food security, energy delivery and the preservation of natural resources and the provision of ecosystem services [31,33,38,56].…”

Section: Different Strategies To Cope With Changing Accessmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Periurban Transformations in the Global South and Their Impact on Water-Based Livelihoods

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Heinkel

2020

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Urban sprawl and population increase are fundamentally transforming periurban areas in the Global South. These areas often suffer from inadequate environmental planning, resulting in water sources being overexploited, degraded, and redistributed. These processes affect water-based livelihoods due to disadvantages in water access and inadequate water governance. On the positive side, these transformation processes are leading to alternative water-based livelihoods. We systematically review and critically comment on the literature on water-based livelihoods in periurban areas of the Global South to provide the current scientific knowledge on this topic. Transformations of water-based livelihoods in periurban areas were also evaluated in terms of their sustainability. We conclude that rapid developments of periurban areas contain threats and potentials for water-based livelihoods and some emerging water-based livelihoods, whereas some emerging water-based livelihoods provide interim solutions for institutional supply gaps. Major lacunae in research are the (1) lack of holistic approaches, which address social dimensions of transformations, (2) the lack of studies applying a differentiated perspective on neighbouring areas within the urban fringe and (3) a lack of knowledge on emerging (water-based) livelihoods.

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Section: Different Strategies To Cope With Changing Accessmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Different Strategies To Cope With Changing Accessmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Different Strategies To Cope With Changing Accessmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Different Strategies To Cope With Changing Accessmentioning

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“…Household Step 3 uses the propensity score matching (PSM) approach in a binary treatment variable [47], to estimate the food security outcomes of involvement in smallholder-based rubber or oil palm production. Several recent studies have used the PSM approach to assess the impact of different agricultural interventions in Africa (e.g., see [38,[48][49][50][51]. We use the three most commonly adopted matching methods, that is, neighbor matching (NNM), caliper-based matching (CBM) and the kernel-based matching (KBM) [52,53] (see Supplementary Electronic Material for more details).…”

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Smallholder-Based Oil Palm and Rubber Production in the Forest Region of Guinea: An Exploratory Analysis of Household Food Security Outcomes

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The Guinean government has promoted the large-scale production of industrial crops such as oil palm and rubber through the Guinean Oil Palm and Rubber Company (SOGUIPAH). Smallholder-based production of these crops has also been promoted to boost rural development but the food security outcomes are unclear. This exploratory study assesses the food security outcomes of smallholder-based oil palm and rubber production at the household level using six standardized metrics of food security. We compare households involved in industrial crop production and households that only grow food crops under subsistence conditions through statistical tools such as Propensity Score Matching (PSM) and Endogenous Treatment Effect Regression (ETER). Overall, results suggest that oil palm and rubber smallholders perform better than subsistence farmers on metrics that capture perceptions of hunger and coping behaviors but perform worse for food diversity metrics. We hypothesize that this discrepancy can possibly be explained by the strong sense of security that steady income provides across time, which outweighs the shortcomings of diet diversity. The results of this exploratory study can inform the development of more detailed assessments of the food security outcomes of interventions implemented by SOGUIPAH in the area (and the mechanism through which these impacts emerge).

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The status and challenges of a modern irrigation system in Kenya: A systematic review

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Lutta

2022

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The modernization efforts of the irrigation subsector in Kenya have been hampered by several challenges. This review describes the status and challenges facing irrigated agriculture in Kenya. The results indicated that as of 2018, the developed irrigation schemes covered an area of 222,240 ha, which is 16% of the irrigation potential of 1.34 million ha. Most large‐scale irrigation schemes use the furrow system. Private and commercial farms and smallholder irrigation schemes use modern irrigation systems. The major challenges to irrigation development are technical, socio‐economic, and institutional. The main technical challenges include poor water infrastructure, water scarcity, and poor water quality. The main socio‐economic challenges include the high cost of modern irrigation systems, inadequate credit facilities, and market inaccessibility. The institutional challenges include the existence of a pluralistic legal framework, inadequate participation by farmers, including women farmers, and poorly organized irrigation water user associations. However, the future of irrigation development is bright through climate change adaptation strategies such as solar‐powered irrigation systems and rainwater harvesting.

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The impact of irrigation on small-scale African indigenous vegetable growers’ market access in peri-urban Kenya

Cited by 23 publications

References 34 publications

Periurban Transformations in the Global South and Their Impact on Water-Based Livelihoods

Periurban Transformations in the Global South and Their Impact on Water-Based Livelihoods

Smallholder-Based Oil Palm and Rubber Production in the Forest Region of Guinea: An Exploratory Analysis of Household Food Security Outcomes

The status and challenges of a modern irrigation system in Kenya: A systematic review

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