The true costs of food production in Kenya
| cg.authorship.types | CGIAR multi-centre | |
| cg.authorship.types | CGIAR and developing country institute | |
| cg.contributor.affiliation | International Food Policy Research Institute | |
| cg.contributor.affiliation | Intersectoral Forum on Agrobiodiversity and Agroecology | |
| cg.contributor.affiliation | Bioversity International and International Center for Tropical Agriculture | |
| cg.contributor.donor | CGIAR Trust Fund | |
| cg.contributor.initiative | Nature-Positive Solutions | |
| cg.coverage.country | Kenya | |
| cg.coverage.iso3166-alpha2 | KE | |
| cg.coverage.region | Africa | |
| cg.coverage.region | Eastern Africa | |
| cg.coverage.region | Sub-Saharan Africa | |
| cg.creator.identifier | Rui Benfica: 0000-0003-2631-107X | |
| cg.creator.identifier | Kristin Davis: 0000-0001-9604-921X | |
| cg.creator.identifier | Carlo Fadda: 0000-0003-3075-6207 | |
| cg.howPublished | Grey Literature | |
| cg.identifier.dataurl | https://hdl.handle.net/10568/159271 | en |
| cg.identifier.project | IFPRI - Innovation Policy and Scaling Unit | |
| cg.identifier.project | IFPRI - Natural Resources and Resilience Unit | |
| cg.identifier.project | IFPRI - True Cost Accounting | |
| cg.identifier.publicationRank | Not ranked | |
| cg.place | Washington, DC | |
| cg.reviewStatus | Internal Review | |
| cg.subject.actionArea | Systems Transformation | |
| cg.subject.impactArea | Environmental health and biodiversity | |
| dc.contributor.author | Benfica, Rui | |
| dc.contributor.author | Davis, Kristin E. | |
| dc.contributor.author | Oulu, Martin | |
| dc.contributor.author | Termote, Céline | |
| dc.contributor.author | Fadda, Carlo | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2024-12-11T18:47:38Z | en |
| dc.date.available | 2024-12-11T18:47:38Z | en |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/10568/163383 | |
| dc.title | The true costs of food production in Kenya | en |
| dcterms.abstract | Key takeaways • True cost accounting allows for the measurement of hidden impacts of food production on the environment, human health, and society. • Our findings show that at the national level for all crop sectors: o Social costs account for 90% and environmental for 10% of external cost structure. o Major social cost sources are underpayment, child labor, and occupational health risks. o Major environmental cost sources are land-use expansion and climate change. • Findings at farm level in NATURE+ Initiative sites in Kajiado, Kisumu, and Vihiga, for the crop sector show that: o Direct costs (70% of true costs) are predominantly hired labor and seed costs o External costs represent about 30% of the true costs o Social externalities costs (84%) are greater than environmental costs (16%) o Forced labor is the most important impact, followed by child labor, underpayment, and gender wage gaps o Environmental externalities include land occupation (land use) and soil degradation | en |
| dcterms.accessRights | Open Access | |
| dcterms.audience | CGIAR | |
| dcterms.bibliographicCitation | Benfica, Rui; Davis, Kristin; Oulu, Martin; Termote, Céline; and Fadda, Carlo. 2024. The true costs of food production in Kenya. Nature-Positive Solutions Initiative Policy Brief. Washington, DC: International Food Policy Research Institute. https://hdl.handle.net/10568/163383 | en |
| dcterms.extent | 9 p. | |
| dcterms.isPartOf | Nature-Positive Solutions Initiative Policy Brief | en |
| dcterms.issued | 2024-12-11 | |
| dcterms.language | en | |
| dcterms.license | CC-BY-NC-4.0 | |
| dcterms.publisher | International Food Policy Research Institute | |
| dcterms.relation | https://hdl.handle.net/10568/148762 | en |
| dcterms.relation | https://hdl.handle.net/10568/152074 | en |
| dcterms.subject | true cost accounting | en |
| dcterms.subject | food production | en |
| dcterms.subject | crops | en |
| dcterms.subject | climate change | en |
| dcterms.subject | labour | en |
| dcterms.type | Brief |