| dc.contributor.author | Nyariki, Dickson M. | |
| dc.contributor.author | Thirtle, C. | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2017-02-28T10:03:42Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2017-02-28T10:03:42Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2000 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/123456789/305 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/03031853.2000.9523676 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://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.uri | http://erepository.uonbi.ac.ke/handle/11295/19307 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/TECHNICAL-INNOVATION-AND-FARM-PRODUCTIVITY-GROWTH-Nyariki-Thirtle/2eb59366a56eb71d88e2f23f6333b63843c1a3b1 | |
| dc.description.abstract | This 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.iso | en | en_US |
| dc.title | Technical innovation and farm productivity growth in dry land Africa: The effects of structural adjustment on smallholders Kenya | en_US |
| dc.type | Article | en_US |
