Economic Barriers to the Adoption of Sustainable Agriculture in Tharaka-Nithi County of Kenya
| dc.contributor.author | Njue, Zachary | |
| dc.contributor.author | Wangai, Peter | |
| dc.contributor.author | Kioko, Eric | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2025-10-14T07:10:56Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2025-10-14T07:10:56Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2025-04 | |
| dc.description | Articles | |
| dc.description.abstract | The ballooning world human population, coupled with challenges of climate change, have extensively compromised global food security and sufficiency. This has led to unsustainable intensification of agricultural activities in an effort to meet this growing demand for food.This has in turn resulted to the degradation of natural ecosystems that support agriculture and to social economic challenges such as a rise in unemployment and poverty levels. The adoption of sustainable agriculture however has the potential to mitigate this situation. However,dopting sustainable agriculture facesnumerous handles among them some economic factorsfacing the farmers. Therefore, thisstudy aimed at determining the economic factors thataffect the adoption of sustainable agricultural practices by the small scale farmers in Tharaka -Nithi county of Kenya. It was a descriptive survey where data was collected from the residentsusing semi structured questionnaires and interview schedules. Secondary data was collected from journal articles, dissertations, thesis, books and conference papers. It was organized andanalysed using SPSS Original Research Article | |
| dc.identifier.citation | Njue, Zachary, Peter Wangai, and Eric Kioko. 2025. “Economic Barriers to the Adoption of Sustainable Agriculture in Tharaka-Nithi County of Kenya”. Asian Journal of Advanced Research and Reports 19 (4):289-300 | |
| dc.identifier.other | https://doi.org/10.9734/ajarr/2025/v19i4984 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://ir-library.ku.ac.ke/handle/123456789/31707 | |
| dc.language.iso | en | |
| dc.publisher | Asian Journal of Advanced Research and Reports | |
| dc.title | Economic Barriers to the Adoption of Sustainable Agriculture in Tharaka-Nithi County of Kenya | |
| dc.type | Article |