Crop-livestock interactions in smallholder farming systems and their implications for the adoption of Conservation Agriculture in Kenya
2015
Jaleta Debello Moti | Odendo, M. | Ouma, J. | Kassie, M. | Kanampiu, F.
This study was conducted as part of the project titled: ‘Enhancing Total Farm Productivityin Smallholder Conservation Agriculture-Based Systems in Eastern Africa’. Its purpose is toinform agronomists and other project partners on the existing crop and livestock productionsetups in the project intervention sites and to help determine to what extent the interactionbetween crop and livestock subsystems could potentially facilitate or hinder the adoption ofconservation agricultural practices. A number of institutions and individuals contributed invarious ways in the production of this baseline information and deserve acknowledgement.The authors would thus like to acknowledge EU-IFAD for funding the project, the KenyanAgricultural and Livestock Research Organization (KARLO)-Embu and Kakamega Centersfor facilitating the overall implementation of the study, which involved household andcommunity surveys on which this report is based. The authors also acknowledge thecontributions of respondent farmers in providing the necessary data gathered during thesurvey process, Ministry of Agriculture staff for logistic support and the enumerators fortheir commitment in data collection.
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