Smallholder Dairy Commercialization Programme, IFAD Impact Assessment Surveys 2017
Kenya, 2017
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KEN_2017_SDCP-IIAS_v01_M_v01_A_OCS
Smallholder Dairy Commercialization Programme, IFAD Impact Assessment Surveys 2017
| Name | Country code |
|---|---|
| Kenya | KEN |
Agricultural Survey [ag/oth]
The Smallholder Dairy Commercialization Programme (SDCP) was designed to address constraints in the smallholders’ milk sector in Kenya by increasing smallholders’ production, productivity and participation in milk markets. It pursued these objectives by training dairy groups, offering technical support for household dairy production and developing milk-marketing chains.
SDCP provided training to dairy farmers to build their enterprise, managerial and organisational skills. Aside from training, the programme also aimed to enhance dairy farming productivity and reduce production costs through demonstration, field days and grants. To strengthen market linkages, SDCP invested in improving road infrastructure and conducted additional training on milk-handling practices and value-added opportunities.
The programme identified three main areas where barriers to improving dairy income potentially operate: dairy group activities, household production and market intermediaries. Programme designers hypothesised that increasing net dairy income for smallholder farmers can occur through four primary contextual factors (1) increasing milk production; (2) increasing milk prices; (3) decreasing the costs of producing milk; and (4) decreasing the transaction costs of participation in input and output markets. They assumed that increased net income will lead to improved food security and increased participation by women and marginalised communities.
For more information, please click on the following link https://www.ifad.org/en/web/knowledge/-/publication/impact-assessment-participatory-small-scale-irrigation-development-programme .
Sample survey data [ssd]
Households
Scope
The subjects covered by the survey are the following:
- Socio-demographic characteristics
- Harvest
- Livestock and cattle
- Access to, and use of, livestock related technologies and inputs
- Feeding and water
- Other services
- Membership of groups
- Milk production and sale-milk
- Milking practices
- Sources of income
- Household dietary diversity and food consumption score.
Coverage
Districts/counties in the western region of Kenya.
Smallholder dairy farmers
Producers and sponsors
| Name | Affiliation |
|---|---|
| International Fund for Agricultural Development | United Nations |
| International Livestock Research Institute | ILRI |
| Research Solutions Africa | Research Solutions Africa |
| American Institutes for Research | AIR |
| Name | Role |
|---|---|
| International Fund for Agricultural Development | Funding |
| Government of Kenya | Funding |
Sampling
The estimation of the project's impact was based on a comprehensive quantitative and qualitative survey. Eight study divisions were identified as valid controls, 95 treatment and 89 control dairy groups were chosen, and 1,297 beneficiary and 1,265 comparison dairy farmers were interviewed.
No weighting.
Survey instrument
The questionnaire was designed to collect detailed data about milk production, cost, and sales to generate information on net milk income and milk sales, which are two primary outcomes of interest to assess project impact. The project also aimed to reduce seasonality of milk production, so that net incomes would be higher and less variable throughout the year. Thus, the questionnaire also collected data on practices, such as second-season fodder grass production, associated with less pronounced seasonality in milk production.While a full-scale consumption module was not included, a module to capture dietary diversity was. The questionnaire also included sections to recover information on the most important control variables at the household level, in order to improve precision of estimating project impact. These included basic household demographics and wealth variables; landholdings; and access to extension and other sources of information, density of social networks, etc.
Importantly, a dairy group questionnaire was also designed. The functioning of dairy groups (i.e., structure, conduct, and performance) is likely to have a strong impact on the ability of households to benefit from project activities, many of which were carried out through the dairy group leadership. Indicators of dairy group performance can serve as controls and can also provide valuable additional insights to feed into future project designs. The dairy group questionnaire also included a module on the history of presence of other development projects in addition to SDCP, which could prove to be useful control information, as well as basic information on community characteristics.
Note: some variables may have missing labels. Please, refer to the questionnaire for more details.
Data collection
| Start | End |
|---|---|
| 2017-02-27 | 2017-03-10 |
- Computer Assisted Personal Interview [capi]
Data Access
| Is signing of a confidentiality declaration required? | Confidentiality declaration text |
|---|---|
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The use of the dataset should be referenced in any publication, using the following citation:
International Fund for Agricultural Development. Smallholder Dairy Commercialization Programme, IFAD Impact Assessment Surveys, Kenya, 2017. Dataset downloaded from https://microdata.fao.org.
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Metadata production
DDI_KEN_2017_SDCP-IIAS_v01_M_v01_A_OCS
| Name | Affiliation | Role |
|---|---|---|
| Office of Chief Statistician | Food and Agriculture Organization | Metadata producer |
| Development Economics Data Group | The World Bank | Metadata adapted for World Bank Microdata Library |
2023-02-17
Metadata version
Version 01 (February 2023): This metadata was downloaded from the FAO website (https://microdata.fao.org/index.php/catalog) and it is identical to FAO version (KEN_2017_SDCP-IIAS_v01_EN_M_v01_A_OCS). The following two metadata fields were edited - Document ID and Survey ID.