Integrated pest management training and information flow among smallholder horticulture farmers in Kenya.

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dc.contributor.authorBekele, N.A.
dc.contributor.authorMithöfer, D.
dc.contributor.authorAmudavi, D. M
dc.contributor.authorObare, G.
dc.date.accessioned2014-07-21T10:05:27Z
dc.date.available2014-07-21T10:05:27Z
dc.date.issued2011
dc.descriptionDOI 10.1079/9781845936495.0243en_US
dc.description.abstractA study was conducted in 5 districts in Kenya (Muranga, Thika and Maragua in Central Province, and Makueni and Embu in Eastern Province) to determine the factors linked to the acquisition of integrated pest management (IPM) knowledge and sharing among the two different group-based farmers, as well as among farmers operating individually (the control group). Data were collected from May to July 2008 focusing on active smallholder vegetable and fruit producers grouped in three categories: farmer field schools (FFS) members, common interest groups (CIG) members, and control farmers. The control farmers were not members of the two group-based training approaches, but they were sampled from the same villages as the FFS and CIG farmers. According to the marginal effect result, FFS and CIG membership, the number of groups to which farmers belonged (excluding FFS and CIG), farmer household memberś literacy and locality positively and significantly affected IPM knowledge acquisition, whereas household size, land size, permanent labour, casual labour, access to horticulture production information, distance to extension services, farmer visitors, frequency of listening to horticulture production information on the radio, and frequency of reading newspaper articles on horticulture production negatively and significantly affected IPM knowledge acquisition. Knowledge sharing was significantly and positively associated with the number of casual labourers employed, IPM knowledge acquisition, and the number of visitors received, whereas membership in FFS, gender and locality significantly and negatively affected IPM knowledge sharing.en_US
dc.identifier.citationVegetable production and marketing in Africa: socio-economic research, Chapter 16 (Page no: 243)en_US
dc.identifier.isbn9781845936495
dc.identifier.urihttps://ew.uni-hohenheim.de/fileadmin/einrichtungen/fsc/Research_publications/Bekele_et_al._CAB_International_2011.pdf
dc.identifier.urihttp://ir-library.ku.ac.ke/handle/123456789/10515
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherCABIen_US
dc.subjectacquisitionen_US
dc.subjectcasual labouren_US
dc.subjectdiffusion of informationen_US
dc.subjectextensionen_US
dc.subjectfarm sizeen_US
dc.subjectfarmersen_US
dc.subjectfarmers' associationsen_US
dc.subjecthouseholdsen_US
dc.subjectintegrated controlen_US
dc.subjectintegrated pest managementen_US
dc.subjectknowledgeen_US
dc.subjectlabouren_US
dc.subjectliteracyen_US
dc.subjectmembershipen_US
dc.subjectpermanent labouren_US
dc.subjectpest controlen_US
dc.subjectplant pestsen_US
dc.subjectvisitoren_US
dc.titleIntegrated pest management training and information flow among smallholder horticulture farmers in Kenya.en_US
dc.typeBook chapteren_US
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