Willis Oluoch‐kosura

Biographic Data

ID3759226
NAMEWillis Oluoch‐kosura
GIVEN NAMESWillis
FAMILY NAMEOluoch‐kosura
SIGNATUREKOSURA W O
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of Nairobi
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS6
TOTAL CITATIONS9
AUTHOR COUNT6
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2006
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2025
H-INDEX2

  • The effects of multiple agricultural advisory service providers on farmers’ productivity in Tanzania

    Annette Goodluck, David Jakinda Otieno et al.ARTICLECommunity Development2025References: 43

    Despite existence of multiple agricultural advisory service providers, there is limited evidence on their contribution to farmers' productivity. This study applied the multinomial endogenous switching regression model to analyze incremental effects of multiple advisory service providers on the partial and total factor productivities of 665 farmers in Tanzania. The study contributes to the literature by using number of service providers rather tha…

  • Effects of gender and institutional support services on commercialisation of maize in Western Kenya

    Dennis Etemesi Olumeh, David Jakinda Otieno et al.ARTICLEDevelopment in Practice2021Cited by: 1References: 20

    This paper analyses the effects of gender and institutional support services on commercialisation patterns of maize by female-headed households (FHHs) and male-headed households (MHHs) in Western Kenya. Using primary household survey data from 297 maize farmers, we estimate a Tobit model and a treatment effect model to assess the determinants and gender-induced differences in commercialisation patterns, respectively. Results show that commerciali…

  • Predictors of Intention to Integrate Biofortified Orange-fleshed Sweetpotato in Child Feeding

    C J Lagerkvist, Janet Mwende Mutiso et al.ARTICLEEcology of Food and Nutrition2020

    The study assesses the psychosocial predictors of intention to integrate biofortified pro-vitamin A orange-fleshed sweet potato (OFSP) in proper complementary feeding (PCF) among women who received either verbal or verbal and visual demonstrations on OFSP-based foods. A total of 764 randomly selected women grouped into four categories, namely pregnant women, women with infants, women with young children, and potential mothers, participated in thi…

  • The role of urban-based agriculture on food security

    Open AccessSamuel Onyango Omondi, Willis Oluoch‐kosura et al.ARTICLEGeographical Research2017Cited by: 3References: 26

    Kenya is rapidly urbanising. In the growing cities and towns, there is an increasing need for food supplies, creating demand for agricultural products. High unemployment rates, urban poverty, and food and nutrition insecurity force some urban dwellers to partly adopt livelihood strategies based on urban agriculture. Presently in Kenya, urban and peri-urban agriculture plays an important role in urban food system, because it enhances livelihood st…

  • Welfare dynamics in rural Kenya and Madagascar

    Christopher B Barrett, Paswel P Marenya et al.ARTICLEThe Journal of Development Studies2006

    This paper presents comparative qualitative and quantitative evidence from rural Kenya and Madagascar in an attempt to untangle the causality behind persistent poverty. We find striking differences in welfare dynamics depending on whether one uses total income, including stochastic terms and inevitable measurement error, or the predictable, structural component of income based on a household's asset holdings. Our results suggest the existence of …

  • Linking Future Ecosystem Services and Future Human Well-being

    Open AccessColin D Butler, Willis Oluoch-Kosura et al.ARTICLEConservation Ecology2006Cited by: 5

    Ecosystem services are necessary, yet not sufficient for human well-being (however defined). Insufficient access to the ecosystem provisioning service of food is a particularly important factor in the loss of human well-being, but all ecosystem services contribute in some way to well-being. Although perhaps long obvious to ecologists, the links between ecosystems and aspects of human well-being, including health, have been less well understood am…