Dynamics of Poverty traps in Kenya: Modelling Food Security, Population Growth and the Poverty Trap

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dc.contributor.advisorPenderis, Sharon
dc.contributor.authorMomanyi, Eric Omwanza
dc.date.accessioned2022-09-07T09:31:41Z
dc.date.accessioned2024-11-05T08:49:59Z
dc.date.available2022-09-07T09:31:41Z
dc.date.available2024-11-05T08:49:59Z
dc.date.issued2010
dc.descriptionMagister Artium (Development Studies) - MA(DVS)en_US
dc.description.abstractRural poverty accounts for 630/o of poverty worldwide. Land has been identified as a key productive asset in the hands of the rural poor. Through this land, the poor are able to produce food for their growing population numbers and sale of surplus to invest in more productive assets. This research project built a System Dynamics model to track the dynamic linkages between changes in the population, food available and land, and its impact on poverty traps in rural Kenya. The model was fitted with Kenyan population data from 1980 to 2005 and rural poverty headcount data for Kenya over the same period. Parameter values were estimated from several assorted publications. The model was used to test the policy implications of increase in land productivity and wage rates on poverty traps in rural settings. Preliminary results indicate that there is need to ensure the poor benefit from efforts of increasing land productivity for it to have a desirable poverty reduction impact. Furthermore, it emerged that demographic changes need to be monitored carefully to achieve a desirable and sustainable population-ecosystem equilibrium that enables the rural poor improve their livelihoods.en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10566/17358
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherUniversity of the Western Capeen_US
dc.rights.holderUniversity of the Western Capeen_US
dc.subjectLanden_US
dc.subjectPeasant Landen_US
dc.subjectCapitalist Landen_US
dc.subjectPopulationen_US
dc.subjectFooden_US
dc.subjectPoverty Trapsen_US
dc.subjectSystem Dynamicsen_US
dc.subjectModelen_US
dc.titleDynamics of Poverty traps in Kenya: Modelling Food Security, Population Growth and the Poverty Trapen_US

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