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dc.contributor.authorNyariki, Dickson M.
dc.contributor.authorThirtle, C.
dc.date.accessioned2017-02-28T10:03:42Z
dc.date.available2017-02-28T10:03:42Z
dc.date.issued2000
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/123456789/305
dc.identifier.urihttp://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/03031853.2000.9523676
dc.identifier.urihttps://www.researchgate.net/publication/46536411_Technical_innovation_and_farm_productivity_growth_in_dryland_Africa_The_effects_of_structural_adjustment_on_smallholders_in_Kenya
dc.identifier.urihttp://erepository.uonbi.ac.ke/handle/11295/19307
dc.identifier.urihttps://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/TECHNICAL-INNOVATION-AND-FARM-PRODUCTIVITY-GROWTH-Nyariki-Thirtle/2eb59366a56eb71d88e2f23f6333b63843c1a3b1
dc.description.abstractThis paper uses non-parametric approach to measure technical innovation and productivity growth at the smallholder farm-level in dry-land sub-Saharan Africa during the initial years of the structural adjustment programmes for agriculture. Data from Kenya for two production years, 1991/2 and 1995/6 are used to construct a Malmquist productivity index. The results show that the rise in input prices led to reduced use of modern inputs, so that efficiency increased at 12% per year. However, lower use of modern varieties and less fertiliser also gave technological regression at 2.5% per annum, so that the overall outcome was productivity growth of 3% per annum. However, productivity improvement cannot be sustainable without technological progress.en_US
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.titleTechnical innovation and farm productivity growth in dry land Africa: The effects of structural adjustment on smallholders Kenyaen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US


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