Adjustment policy and agricultural development

Policy Reform and Agricultural Adjustment in Transition Countries

Tegemeo Institute for Agricultural Development and Policy

BACKGROUND: The starting point for the design of effective programs to mitigate the impacts of AIDSrelated adult mortality is accurate information on how households are affected by, and respond to, premature death. This note presents key findings from the study, Measuring the Effects of Prime-Age Adult Death on Rural Households in Kenya. The full report is downloadable from the web address abov...

Southern African Development Community Regional Agricultural Policy

Egerton University Tegemeo Institute of Agricultural Policy and Development

Despite the resurgence of parastatal marketing boards and strategic grain reserves over the last decade in eastern and southern Africa, there is little empirical evidence about how their activities affect smallholder input use and cropping decisions. This paper uses panel survey data from 1997-2007 on Kenyan smallholders to investigate the effect of Kenya’s National Cereal Produce Board activit...

Agricultural Policy Reforms Reforms and Rural Development in Turkey