Drivers of sustainable intensification in Kenyan rural and peri-urban vegetable production |
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| Authors: | Barnabas K. Kurgat Evans Ngenoh Hillary K. Bett Silke Stöber Samuel Mwonga Hermann Lotze-Campen |
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| Affiliation: | 1. Centre for Rural Development (SLE), Humboldt-Universit?t zu Berlin, Berlin, Germany;2. School of Science and Applied Technology, Laikipia University, Kenyabkurgat@laikipia.ac.kebkurgat@yahoo.com;5. Department of Agricultural Economics and Agribusiness Management, Egerton University, Egerton, Kenya;6. Department of Crops, Horticulture, and Soils, Egerton University, Egerton, Kenya;7. Potsdam Institute of Climate Impact Research (PIK), Potsdam, Germany;8. Department of Sustainable Land Use and Climate Change, Faculty of Life Sciences, Humboldt-Universit?t zu Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
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| Abstract: | Sustainable intensification promotes environmentally sound and productive agriculture. However, use of sustainable intensification practices (SIPs) is low in many sub-Sharan African countries. This study examined the adoption of SIPs in Kenyan rural and peri-urban vegetable production to understand the scale of and underlying factors in the use of SIPs. A multistage sampling technique was employed to randomly select 685 rural and peri-urban vegetable farm households. Household data was then collected and anaylsed for four practices namely improved irrigation, integrated soil fertility, organic manure and crop diversification using a pre-tested structured questionnaire. A multivariate probit model was run to model simultaneous interdependent adoption decisions. Adoption of organic manure and African indigenous vegetables (AIV) diversification was high in both rural and peri-urban areas. However, adoption of improved irrigation systems and integrated soil fertility management was low, and even significantly lower in rural areas than in peri-urban areas (p?
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| Keywords: | Adoption farm households peri-urban rural sustainable intensification vegetables Kenya |
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