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| Title: | Food aid and economic development: impact of food for work on labor allocation, production and consumption behavior of small family-farms in a semi-arid area of Kenya |
| Author: | Bezuneh, Mesfin |
| Year: | 1988 |
| Pages: | 233 |
| Language: | English |
| City of publisher: | Ann Arbor, MI |
| Publisher: | University Microfilms International |
| Geographic term: | Kenya |
| Subjects: | development cooperation food aid small farms agricultural workers dissertations (form) |
| Abstract: | The purpose of this study is to analyse the impacts of the Food-for-Work (FFW) programme on farm households in the Baringo District, Rift Valley Province, Kenya, more specifically, the programme's effects on labour allocation, production, and income, and on the allocation of income generated from the production side to various consumer goods (food and non-food items) and leisure. The specific hypothesis tested is that the rural farm households who participate in the FFW programme divert labour from own production to FFW projects, thereby resulting in reduced output from own farming. In other words, FFW programmes may have disincentive effects through the process of labour reallocation. Regardless, the net income of recipient households may be greater than if they had not participated. If so, this net gain is hypothesized in turn to result in increased: (a) employment opportunities in the area, (b) output from own farming relaxing the capital constraints in subsequent years, and (c) level of food consumption, and hence, nutritional status of the recipient families. |