Do Farmers Really Benefit from High Food Prices? Balancing Rural Interests in Kenya's Maize Pricing and Marketing Policy

Thomas S. Jayne (), Takashi Yamano (), J. Nyoro and T. Awuor

No KE-TEGEMEO-WP-2b, International Development Collaborative Working Papers from Department of Agricultural Economics, Michigan State University

Abstract: This paper uses information on rural households in 18 districts surveyed in 1997 and again in 1998 to inform current debate on maize pricing and trade policy. Specifically, it determines how farm households are being affected by governmental efforts to support maize price levels. It then examines the implications of these findings for the development of strategies to promote agricultural productivity and rural income growth.

Keywords: food security; food policy; Kenya; maize; marketing (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: Q18 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: Written
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