Impacts of intensive dairy production on smallholder farm women in coastal Kenya

Smallholder dairy production in Kenya is one of the developing world’s success stories. Kenya's improved dairy cattle herd of more than 3 million is the largest in Africa, and significantly is held mostly by smallholders. As a result, dairy production is a major part of the agricultural sector and an important source of livelihoods for at least an estimated 600,000 smallholder farm families in Kenya (Omore et al., 1999). Compared to its neighbours, the country has a welldeveloped dairy production and processing industry, and the country has broadly managed to be self-reliant in dairy products, so that except during extreme dry years, imports are negligible.

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Input subsidy effects on crops grown by smallholder farm women: The example of cowpea in Mali

Oxford Development Studies ◽

10.1080/13600818.2021.2008892 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 1-15

Author(s):

M. Smale ◽

V. Thériault

Keyword(s):

Farm Women ◽

Smallholder Farm

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Farm women and stress

PsycEXTRA Dataset ◽

10.1037/e389222004-013 ◽

1986 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Carol Turkington ◽

Keyword(s):

Farm Women

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STATE AND TRENDS OF DEVELOPMENT OF MARKET OF MILK AND DAIRY PRODUCTION in UKRAINE

Economy and Society ◽

10.32782/2524-0072/2018-17-26 ◽

2018 ◽

Author(s):

А.V. Chmut ◽

N.V. Аntosh

Keyword(s):

Dairy Production

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PROSPECTS OF DAIRY PRODUCTION DEVELOPMENT REGION USING DIGITAL TECHNOLOGIES

AIC economics management ◽

10.33305/199-46 ◽

2019 ◽

pp. 46-54

Author(s):

G. Batov

Keyword(s):

Digital Technologies ◽

Dairy Production ◽

Production Development ◽

Development Region

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LIME AND DAIRY PRODUCTION

Proceedings of the New Zealand Grassland Association ◽

10.33584/jnzg.1982.43.1608 ◽

1982 ◽

pp. 93-103

Author(s):

N.A. Thomson

Keyword(s):

Soil Moisture ◽

Dairy Cows ◽

Milk Production ◽

Soil Ph ◽

Dairy Production ◽

Pasture Production ◽

The Third ◽

One Year ◽

Plasma Magnesium

In a four year grazing trial with dairy cows the application of 5000 kg lime/ ha (applied in two applications of 2500 kg/ha in winter of the first two years) significantly increased annual pasture production in two of the four years and dairy production in one year. In three of the four years lime significantly increased pasture growth over summer/autumn with concurrent increases in milk production. In the last year of the trial lime had little effect on pasture growth but a relatively large increase in milkfat production resulted. A higher incidence of grass staggers was recorded on the limed farmlets in spring for each of the four years. In the second spring immediately following the second application of lime significant depressions in both pasture and plasma magnesium levels were recorded. By the third spring differences in plasma magnesium levels were negligible but small depressions in herbage magnesium resulting from lime continued to the end of the trial. Lime significantly raised soil pH, Ca and Mg levels but had no effect on either soil K or P. As pH levels of the unlimed paddocks were low (5.2-5.4) in each autumn and soil moisture levels were increased by liming, these factors may suggest possible causes for the seasonality of the pasture response to lime

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THE SOIL PATTERN AND TRENDS IN WEST COAST AGRICULTURE SINCE 1964

Proceedings of the New Zealand Grassland Association ◽

10.33584/jnzg.1981.42.1577 ◽

1981 ◽

pp. 19-28 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

D.B. Wright

Keyword(s):

West Coast ◽

Land Development ◽

Dairy Production ◽

Waste Land ◽

Development Costs ◽

Coastal Soils ◽

Physical Features ◽

Soil Pattern ◽

Great Scope

The physical features, climate and soils of the West Coast are described. Expansion since 1964 of dairy production, sheep and beef cattle numbers, and areas of improved grassland are highlighted, as is the role of the Crown in land development and settlement. While isolation and distance, development costs, river problems, and farmer attitude and knowledge are considered limitations, great scope exists for increased production by the adoption, of more intensive techniques, including horticulture on the best coastal soils, and by development of waste land.

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