References/Resources

  • An Economic Analysis of the Determinants of Maize Seed Pricing in Kenya: A Value Chain Approach, Effects of Government Maize Marketing Trade Policies on Maize Market Prices in Kenya, http://www.tegemeo.org/viewdocument.asp?ID=100
  • Effects of Government Maize Marketing Trade Policies on Maize Market Prices in Kenya, http://www.tegemeo.org/viewdocument.asp?ID=100
  • Food Pricing Policy and Rural Poverty: Insights from Maize in Kenya, http://ageconsearch.umn.edu/handle/25466
  • Kenya’s Competitiveness in Domestic Maize Production: Implications for Food Security, http://www.ascleiden.nl/pdf/paper07112002.pdf
  • Strategies to Promote Market-Oriented Smallholder Agriculture in Developing Countries: A Case of Kenya, .
  • Supply Responsiveness of Maize Farmers in Kenya: a Farm-Level Analysis,
  • Technical Efficiency and Regional Market Integration of Cross-Border Bean Marketing in Western Kenya and Eastern Uganda, .
  • http://www.academicjournals.org/AJBM/contents/2007cont/Jul.htm
  •  Correlates of group-membership by small-scale farm entrepreneurs in Kenya,.
  • http://www.academicjournals.org/AJBM/contents/2009cont/Jan.htm
  • Evolution of Kenya’s Maize Marketing Systems in the Post-Liberation Era, .
  • http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.151.5000&rep=rep1&type=pdf
  • Rural institutions and producer organizations in imperfect markets: experiences from producer marketing groups in semi-arid eastern Kenya, .
  • www.icrisat.org/journal/mpii/v2i1/v2i1rural.pdf
  • Smallholder Marketed Surplus and Input Use Under Transaction Costs: Maize Supply and Fertilizer Demand in Kenya, .http://ideas.repec.org/p/ags/aaae07/52074.html
  • Testing for Oligopoly Power in the Kenyan Seed Maize Processing Industry,
  • http://ageconsearch.umn.edu/handle/25591

 

Other Readings

  • Estimating Cost Efficiency among Maize Producers in Kenya and Uganda,
  • http://ageconsearch.umn.edu/bitstream/20396/1/sp04ki03.pdf
  • Kenya’s Competitiveness in Domestic Maize Production: Implications for Food Security, http://www.ascleiden.nl/pdf/paper07112002.pdf
  • The Maize Subsector in Kenya: Mending the Granary, http://www.boell.or.ke/web/index-278.html
  • Private Sector Responses to Public Investments and Policy Reforms: the Case of Fertilizer and Maize Market Development in Kenya, http://www.ifpri.org/publication/private-sector-responses-public-investments-and-policy-reforms.
  • Supply Responsiveness of Maize Farmers in Kenya: a Farm-Level Analysis,
  • http://ageconsearch.umn.edu/bitstream/50786/2/MAIZE%20SUPPLY%20RESPONSE%20IN%20K KENYA.pdf

Theoretical Topics
  • Agricultural Food Commodity Markets and Vulnerability of African Economies, .
  • http://erd.eui.eu/media/sarris.pdf
  • Structure-Conduct-Performance and Food Security,
  • http://pdf.usaid.gov/pdf_docs/PNADL965.pdf http://ageconsearch.umn.edu/handle/47883
 
OPEN ACCESS JOURNALS AND JOURNAL LITERATURE

  • AgEcon Search
  • http://ageconsearch.umn.edu/
  • http://www.aginternetwork.org/en/
  • http://www.teeal.org/about.html
  • Kenya Agricultural Commodities Exchange (http://www.kacekenya.com/)
  • Tegemeo Institute of Agricultural Policy and Development (http://www.tegemeo.org/).

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This module was developed by Moi University, Department of Economics and Agricultural Resource Management with support from OER Africa and Bill & Mellinda Gates Foundation