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    The Role of Agricultural Extension Interventions in Enhancing Food Security in Kajiado County, Kenya
    (IJRPR, 2025-02) Macharia, Eunice Wamuyu; Ng’eno, Weldon Kibet; Njoroge, Jane Gakenia
    Despite the many attempts to enhance food security in Kenya, insufficiency of food and food items remain a challenge in many parts of the country. Manyinterventions have been instituted in the past with limited results despite heavy investments and government spending both at policy and implementation levels. The main research objective of the study is to establish the effectiveness of agricultural extension officers interventions in enhancing food security in KajiadoCounty, Kenya. Stakeholders theory was used to inform the study. The researcher’s philosophy was pragmatic. This research used a mixed research designwithdescriptive and explanatory being employed. The target population comprised of 29,514 registered famers, 47 agricultural extension officers and 11countygovernment officials. The study used a sample size of 411 respondents comprising of 356 registered famers and a census of all 47 agricultural officers and11County government officers. The researcher utilized semi structured questionnaires for registered famers and agricultural extension officers and interviewedtheCounty government officials to collect quantitative and qualitative facts. The questionnaire was administered physically with a help of research assistant whowasable to understand the local dialect of the community around the county and helped fill the information in google forms. In addition to these, the study used10interview schedule questions to collect qualitative data from County government officials. The internal consistency was measured using Cronbach's alpha, wherean alpha value of 0.7 ≤ α < 0.9. Data was analyzed descriptively and was subjected to an inferential statistics at 0.05 significance levels and was facilitatedbySPSS statistical software, version 21. Content analysis was used to analyze qualitative data involving outlining the useful responses and presenting theminthemes in prose form. Diagrams like bar graphs and pie charts together with tables were used to present the findings to easily understand and interpret. Theregression model measured the relationship between agricultural extension and food security. The diagnostic tests were conducted to ascertain that all theassumptions regarding the multiple linear regression analysis were not violated. The findings indicated that agricultural extension intervention significantlyinfluenced food security in Kajiado County.