Combined household and GIS analysis of farmer strategies: an application to feeding practices on smallholder Kenyan dairy farms

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cg.contributor.affiliationInternational Livestock Research Instituteen_US
cg.contributor.donorDepartment for International Development, United Kingdomen_US
cg.coverage.countryKenyaen_US
cg.coverage.iso3166-alpha2KEen_US
cg.coverage.regionAfricaen_US
cg.coverage.regionEastern Africaen_US
cg.creator.identifierSteven Staal: 0000-0002-1244-1773en_US
cg.creator.identifierIsabelle Baltenweck: 0000-0002-4147-5921en_US
cg.subject.ilriANIMAL FEEDINGen_US
cg.subject.ilriDAIRYINGen_US
cg.subject.ilriLIVESTOCKen_US
cg.subject.ilriKNOWLEDGE AND INFORMATIONen_US
dc.contributor.authorStaal, Steven J.en_US
dc.contributor.authorWolff, T. deen_US
dc.contributor.authorBaltenweck, Isabelleen_US
dc.contributor.authorRomney, Dannie L.en_US
dc.contributor.authorWaithaka, M.M.en_US
dc.contributor.authorNjoroge, L.en_US
dc.contributor.authorKruska, Russell L.en_US
dc.contributor.authorWokabi, A.en_US
dc.contributor.authorNjubi, D.en_US
dc.contributor.authorThorpe, W.R.en_US
dc.date.accessioned2010-07-08T19:19:54Zen_US
dc.date.available2010-07-08T19:19:54Zen_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10568/2055en_US
dc.titleCombined household and GIS analysis of farmer strategies: an application to feeding practices on smallholder Kenyan dairy farmsen_US
dcterms.abstractTraditional studies of agricultural technology adoption have long been constrained by a limited ability to include spatially-differentiated data. Typically, crude proxies or location dummy variables are used to approximate spatial effects. GIS tools, however, now allow spatially explicit data to be included in household econometric models of technology adoption. This paper describes a study that combined GIS and survey variables to examine the cattle feeding strategies on farms in highland Kenya. Data from a large geo-referenced household survey were combined with GIS-derived variables to comprehensively evaluate the spatial, agro-ecological, market and farm resource factors that determine variability of feeding strategies on smallholder dairy farms. Roads, urban populations, milk collection and processing facilities were digitised, and integrated with spatial coverages of agro-ecology. These were then combined, using econometric methods, to quantify the main spatial and local determinants of the probability of adoption of: a) stall feeding or zero-grazing, and b) planted fodder in the form of Napier grass. The results show the influence not only of agro-ecology, but also of market infrastructure and support services on the adoption of improved feeding strategies. A comparison of predicted uptake using GIS and household variables shows that after first calibrating GIS-derived variables through a household survey, broad but reliable predictions of technology uptake in other areas may be possible.en_US
dcterms.accessRightsOpen Accessen_US
dcterms.bibliographicCitationStaal, S.; Wolff, T. de; Baltenweck, I.; Romney, D.; Waithaka, M.; Njoroge, L.; Kruska, R.; Wokabi, A.; Njubi, D.; Thorpe, W. 2000. Combined household and GIS analysis of farmer strategies: an application to feeding practices on smallholder Kenyan dairy farms. Paper presented at the Fifth Seminar on GIS in Developing Countries (GISDECO 2000) - “GIS Tools for Rural Development”, 2-3 November 2000, IRRI, Los Banos, Laguna, Philippines. Nairobi (Kenya): ILRIen_US
dcterms.issued2000-11en_US
dcterms.languageenen_US
dcterms.licenseOtheren_US
dcterms.publisherInternational Livestock Research Instituteen_US
dcterms.subjectanimal feedingen_US
dcterms.subjectdairy farmsen_US
dcterms.subjectsmall farmsen_US
dcterms.typeConference Paperen_US

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