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Item Socioeconomic Determinants of Banana Farmers’ Perception to Climate Change in Nyeri County, Kenya.(Journal of Arts & Humanities, 2019-08-29) Karienye, David; Nduru, Gilbert; Kamiri, Hellen;Climate change is one of the key constraints to banana production globally. The extent of the climate change impacts depends largely on farmers’ awareness, perceptions and responses to climate change. This study examined the perception of farmers in Mt Kenya region, Nyeri County-Kenya of climate change impacts on banana value chain and analysed the socio-economic factors that influenced these perceptions. The study sites were purposively selected to include areas where banana production had been practiced since the 1980s. Data was collected from a hundred and thirty farming households between February and April 2018. Results indicated that 78.2% of the respondents perceived increase in rainfall and temperature as what constituted climate change. The major perceived effects of climate change to be high transport cost of banana to the market, low prices during rainy season and high demand of the produce during dry season. Results of logit model analysis indicated that gender of household head, farming system, type of farming and access to weather information influenced farmers’ perception towards climate change. Even though majority (78.5%) of the farmers perceived climate change to have changed over the years, 47.7% recommended accessibility of weather information on onset of the rainfall period, while 49.2% preferred information on rainfall distribution within the seasons in order to respond to climate change occurrences. These findings show that there is need to integrate policies that safeguard the smallholder farmers from adverse effects of climate change.Item Isochronal Map of Fresh Fruits and Vegetable Transportation from the Mt. Kenya Region to Nairobi(Journal of Maps, 2011-01) Dannenberg, Peter; Nduru, Gilbert; Kunze, ManuelaDeveloping countries like Kenya face problems of poor transportation networks, which make the time distance relationship in the transportation of fresh fruit and vegetables (FFV) products to be of great importance in determining whether the products reach the market fresh and in marketable quality. This map demonstrates that relationship using the case of the Mt. Kenya region. It highlights the quality and extent of the road infrastructure in the region and the relative time and distance that FFV producers and transporters take to transport their products to the main export point at the Jomo Kenyatta International Airport (JKIA) in Nairobi.Item Practices in International Value Chains: The Case of the Kenyan Fruit and Vegetable Chain beyond the Exclusion Debate(TIJDSCHRIFT VOOR ECONOMISCHE ENSOCIALE GEOGRAFIE, 2013-02) Dannenberg, Peter; Nduru, GilbertThe emerging role of private standards as new forms of regulation and co-ordination in international trade and production is discussed in various fields including economic geography. A prominent example is the impact of the European standard GlobalGAP (former EurepGap) in Kenyan export horticulture. While today this standard is a quasi mandatory precondition for entering the EU market, several studies came to conclude that its high requirements led to market exclusion of most Kenyan farmers. This paper analyses how far farmers have in fact been excluded or have found alternative ways to enter the chain. Based on our own surveys, we identify and analyse different informal possibilities that are frequently used to produce for EU markets without a GlobalGAP certificate. Here we argue that informal production flows can take place even in highly standardised sophisticated consumer markets and should therefore be integrated into analyses on global value chains.