MAAJABU YA MTANDAONI,BOFYA HAPO CHINI HUTAAMINI MACHO YAKO
You need food to survive, and food security is crucial to individual and cultural survival. Where does your food come from? (“The store?”) Food insecurity can be (and is) a cause of individual stress and cultural conflict. Agricultural land use varies due to environmental, economic, and other cultural constraints and preferences.
Agriculture is a dominant economic activity in many regions.
Why it matters. You need food to survive, and would often do whatefvdThis affects other aspects of culture from HDI (GDP, literacy, years of education, life expectancy) to national viability, food security. And income.
Definition: Jordan, 2012, Chapter 8 p. 211
Prompts: Define agriculture. Why are so many people focused on agriculture in these areas: Hint: physical and demographic contributions exist.
Environmental extremes are unprofitable, and traditional cultures often survive in difficult and/or inaccessible peripheral regions. Isolation reduces options for commercial agriculture, and often traditional cultures practice specific types of subsistence agriculture in these environmental niches. Successful practices include shifting cultivation, herding, nomadic herding, hunting, fishing and gathering, and intensive small plot farming.
Where do we find subsistence agriculture? Name 5 different physical characteristics of subsistence agricultural regions. (There are physical and cultural causes)
What types of subsistence agriculture are there? Name 5 types.
Why do we find subsistence agriculture in the periphery? (Environmental and cultural causes)
How can we use environmental constraints to find subsistence agriculture? (Different question, same answer)
Selling excess produces cash for luxuries and savings for lean years. This process can lead to entirely commercial enterprises,in which little or no produce is used for consumption. What types of commercial agriculture can you think of? BTW: How many cranberries can you eat in a day? If people enter into commercial agriculture.
Queries:
Define commercial agriculture.
What are the environmental and cultural limits to successful commercial agriculture? (See later slide.)
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Pig industry sustains livelihoods of many families in Kenya. Pig rearing has been one of wellestablishedindustry
in Kenya following growing export markets and increasing number of health
conscious consumers. Pig production if efficiently managed has great potentials for increasing
protein supply in Kenya. Smallholder pig farms in Tharaka-Nithi County have been facing
varying and dismal profits. The main objective of this study will be to establish which
institutional arrangements and management factors affect the profit efficiency of small-holder
pig farmers in Tharaka-Nithi County. A multi-stage purposive sampling technique will be
adopted to collect cross sectional data of eighty (80) smallholder pig farmers in Maara
Constituency by the use of semi-structured interview schedules. The work will employ Data
Envelopment Analysis to come up with profit efficiency rankings among the farmers and
stochastic frontier profit function will be used to analyze the factors that affect profit efficiency.
The data will be processed using STATA and DEA Frontier packages. The findings could be
useful to the stakeholders of the pig industry sub sector to formulate policies pertaining to pig
enterprise inputs, marketing issues and financial products and also can establish benchmarks
which can be used as a package for enhancing and stabilizing profit efficiencies of smallholder
pig farmers which in turn could help improve the Kenya economy.
An Overview of Livestock Sub-sector in Kenya Perspectives, Opportunities and Innovations for Market Access for Market Access for Pastoral Producers Recent statistics point that the livestock sub-sector in Kenya accounts for approximately 10% of the National Gross Domestic Product (GDP). This is 30% of the agricultural GDP. It employs about 50% of the national agricultural workforce and about 90% of the ASAL workforce. 95% of ASAL household income comes from this sub-sector. This is despite the fact that the sector receives only 1 % of the total annual budget allocation. The livestock resource base is estimated at 60 million units comprising of 29 million indigenous and exotic chicken, 10 million beef cattle, 3 million dairy and dairy crosses, 9 million goats, 7 million sheep, 0.8 mi camels, 0.52 mi donkeys and 0.3 million pigs. (Strategy for Revitalizing Agriculture (SRA) 2003) Kenya is broadly self-sufficient in most livestock products but is a net importer of red meat mostly inform of on-the-hoof animals trekked across the porous boundaries of neighbouring countries- Somalia, Ethiopia, Sudan, Uganda and Tanzania. Livestock supply in Kenya results from a complex set of interactions between Kenya and its neighbours and the traditional Middle East market and their respective livestock populations, demand and market prices. Kenya is part of a regional market where livestock flow according to markets and price differentials in a liberalized system throughout the region as a whole and where Nairobi represents a focus of demand for the region Supply of red-meat from domestic cattle, shoats and camels falls short of demand, and is almost permanently augmented by a traditional livestock trade drawn in from neighbouring countries, especially Somalia, Tanzania, Sudan and Ethiopia in varying quantities according to demand, which maintains a supply/demand
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