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This easy-to-use guide to effective targeting of selected dairy interventions in Kenya is intended for use by anyone involved in dairy farming in the country, such as development planners, researchers, service providers, suppliers of dairy inputs and extension workers. The guide answers the quest...


Ouma, R.Njoroge, L.Romney, D.L.Ochungo, P.Staal, Steven J.Baltenweck, Isabelle[Targeting dairy interventions in Kenya: a guide for development planners, researchers and extension workers]Targeting dairy interventions in Kenya: a guide for development planners, researchers and extension workers

While development agencies in Uganda have tended to promote intensification of dairy production to smallholder farmers where intensification is associated with improved breeds of dairy cattle, smaller farm sizes and increased usage of labour and purchased inputs per unit of milk produced - farmer...


Baltenweck, IsabelleMubiru, S.Nanyeenya, W.Njoroge, L.Halberg, N.Romney, D.L.Staal, Steven J.[Dairy farming in Uganda: production efficiency and soil management strategies under different production systems]Dairy farming in Uganda: production efficiency and soil management strategies under different production systems

Liberalisation in the dairy industry in Kenya is currently under way in several forms. The urban milk market monopoly of the Kenya Co-operative Creameries has been lifted. Clinical veterinary and artificial insemination (AI) services are no longer publicly supported in many areas. Private sector ...


Owango, M.O.Lukuyu, Ben A.Staal, Steven J.Kenyanjui, M.Njubi, D.Thorpe, W.R.[Dairy co-operatives and policy reform in Kenya: Effects of livestock service and milk market liberalisation]Dairy co-operatives and policy reform in Kenya: Effects of livestock service and milk market liberalisation

Baltenweck, IsabelleStaal, Steven J.Owango, M.O.Muriuki, H.Lukuyu, Ben A.Gichungu, G.Kenyanjui, M.Njubi, D.Tanner, J.C.Thorpe, W.R.[Intensification of dairying in the greater Nairobi milk-shed: spatial and household analysis]Intensification of dairying in the greater Nairobi milk-shed: spatial and household analysis

As farm sizes decline due to population pressure in the central highlands, smallholder farmers find it difficult to intensify dairying due to competition for resources by alternative crop and other enterprise. However, very little is known the nature of trade-offs the smallholder farmers experien...


Mulinge, W.M.Oluoch-Kosura, W.Staal, Steven J.Mbogoh, S.[Multiobjective optimization of the trade-offs in smallholder dairy farming intensification]Multiobjective optimization of the trade-offs in smallholder dairy farming intensification

It is argued that dairying is vital to future viability of many small farms in East Africa and that high transactions costs for dairy production and marketing limit participation by asset- and information-poor smalholders. Case studies from Kenya and Ethiopia illustrate the role of dairy cooperat...


Staal, Steven J.Delgado, Christopher L.Nicholson, C.[Smallholder dairying under transactions costs in East Africa]Smallholder dairying under transactions costs in East Africa

In peri-urban areas of the world where cattle are present, dairy farming has typically been part of the adjustment in production patterns of smallholders faced with shrinking arable land, higher population density and rising wage rates. In sub-Saharan Africa, where the economic viability of small...


Staal, Steven J.Delgado, Christopher L.Nicholson, C.[Smallholder dairying under transactions costs in East Africa]Smallholder dairying under transactions costs in East Africa

Sustainability of their agricultural systems is essential for many tropical countries where the majority of the people depend upon agriculture for their livelihoods. In the short term economic sustainability is the main factor influencing viability of an agricultural system and of the farms which...


Utiger, C.Romney, D.L.Njoroge, L.Staal, Steven J.Lukuyu, Ben A.Chege, L.[Nutrient flows and balances in intensive crop-dairy production systems in the Kenya highlands]Nutrient flows and balances in intensive crop-dairy production systems in the Kenya highlands

When severe market shortages of dairy products occurred in Kenya in early 1992, the government decontrolled dairy prices and revoked the monopoly of the Kenya Co-operative Creameries (KCC) on sales of processed milk in urban areas. The general opinion among policy makers in Kenya then was that th...


Staal, Steven J.Shapiro, Barry I.[The effects of price liberalisation on Kenyan peri-urban dairy]The effects of price liberalisation on Kenyan peri-urban dairy

Baltenweck, IsabelleStaal, Steven J.Owango, M.O.Muriuki, H.Lukuyu, Ben A.Gichungu, G.Kenyanjui, M.Njubi, D.Tanner, J.C.Thorpe, W.R.[Intensification and competitiveness of smallholder dairy production systems in the greater Nairobi Milk-Shed]Intensification and competitiveness of smallholder dairy production systems in the greater Nairobi Milk-Shed

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