Paswel Marenya

TL;DR: In this article, the authors found that the size of the farm owned by a household, the value of its livestock, off-farm income, family labor supply, and the educational attainment and gender of the household head all had a significant positive effect on the likelihood of adoption.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present comparative qualitative and quantitative evidence from rural Kenya and Madagascar in an attempt to untangle the causality behind persistent poverty, and suggest the existence of multiple dynamic asset and structural income equilibria, consistent with the poverty traps hypothesis.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors acknowledge with gratitude support from the Rockefeller Foundation, the United States Agency for International Development (USAID)/Leadership Enhancement in Agriculture Program (LEAP), and the Coupled Natural and Human Systems Program of the Biocomplexity Initiative of the National Science 20 Foundation, through grant BCS - 0215890.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors apply a switching regression model to data from 260 farm households in western Kenya in order to allow for the possibility of discontinuities in fertilizer demand based on a soil carbon content (SCC) threshold.

TL;DR: In this article, a multivariate probit model was used to assess the determinants of farmer adaptation behavior to climate risks and the relative contribution of information, credit and education on the probability of adopting specific practices in response to adverse changes in weather patterns.