Excerpt from Basic Agricultural Resources of Kenya Reducing agricultural and consumer goods imports is a goal of particularly high priority in the Kenyan Government. It wants to substitute these imports with capital goods needed to accelerate industrial and agribusiness development. In addition to providing development capital, agriculture and agribusiness must also be relied onto provide employment during the 1970's. Over 75 percent of Kenya's l million people are engaged in crop farming or livestock raising, but Kenya's cities are annually receiving an influx of thousands of rural young men who lack urban skills. Because appropriate urban opportunities are not likely to grow fast enough to absorb them, the agricultural and agribusiness sectors will have to provide more jobs. The Government hopes to develop rural areas to provide nonagricultural employment opportunities also. Kenya's efforts to increase agricultural production and thereby raise export earnings are aimed primarily toward African subsistence farms and, especially, African smallholder farms - rather than the remaining large European-owned operations that once dominated commercial agriculture in Kenya. During the past decade, Kenya has had marked success in bringing African farmers into the market economy as smallholder-producers. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

This paper aims to provide an overview of Kenyan policies related to agriculture and climate change adaptation and mitigation in preparation for the Kenya National Policy Dialogue on 12 November 2022 in Nairobi, Kenya. The Dialogue is a joint programme with CGIAR Initiative on Diversification of East and Southern Africa led by International Water Management Institute (IWMI) Southern Africa, the Food, Agriculture and Natural Resources Policy Analysis Network (FANRPAN) South Africa, and the Kenya Institute for Public Policy Research and Analysis (KIPPRA) Kenya. The paper provides an overview of the economic and administrative profile of the country and general overview of the country’s economic status and agricultural and climate change policies that will be critically debated during the Dialogue.

Abstract: This paper measures the economic impact of climate on crops in Kenya. The analysis is based on cross-sectional climate, hydrological, soil, and household level data for a sample of 816 households, and uses a seasonal Ricardian model. Estimated marginal impacts of climate variables suggest that global warming is harmful for agricultural productivity and that changes in temperature are much more important than changes in precipitation. This result is confirmed by the predicted impact of various climate change scenarios on agriculture. The results further confirm that the temperature component of global warming is much more important than precipitation. The authors analyze farmers' perceptions of climate variations and their adaptation to these, and also constraints on adaptation mechanisms. The results suggest that farmers in Kenya are aware of short-term climate change, that most of them have noticed an increase in temperatures, and that some have taken adaptive measures.