3.1 Agriculture

• Types of agriculture in the world
• Factors influencing agriculture
• Importance of agriculture to society
• Trends in agriculture in Africa
• Challenges facing agriculture in Kenya
• Strategies for enhancing agricultural productivity

• explore types of agriculture in the world
• explain the importance of agriculture in the society
• analyse the trends in agriculture in Africa
• examine challenges facing agriculture in Kenya
• design strategies towards enhancing agricultural productivity in Kenya
• appreciate the role of agriculture towards food security in Kenya

“Why does Kenya still import food when most of its people are farmers?”

“What decides which crops a region can grow?”

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1. Types of agriculture and what shapes them
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   The ways farming is classified, and the physical and human factors that decide what a place can grow.
2. Kenyan agriculture: importance, challenges and what can be done
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   Why agriculture matters to the economy, why productivity stays low, and the strategies that would raise it.
3. Subsistence and commercial farming
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   Purpose is a separate question from size or intensity: who the harvest is for.
4. Intensive and extensive farming
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   Intensity is input per hectare: a small shamba can be intensive; a wheat farm can be extensive.
5. Rainfall, temperature and which crops grow
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   In the tropics altitude cools the land; rainfall then chooses the crop inside that band.
6. Soils, relief and pests as limits on farming
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   Deep volcanic soils, slope and tsetse complete the physical limits that climate began.
7. Markets, roads, capital and land tenure
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   Human factors decide what is actually grown inside the physical limits.
8. Tea and coffee in the Kenyan highlands
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   Kenya's classic highland cash crops: where they grow, why, and how they reach Mombasa.
9. Maize and other staple crops in Kenya
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   Maize is the national staple, but wheat, rice, sorghum, millet and beans fill the gaps climate leaves.
10. Horticulture and cut flowers
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    Perishable vegetables and roses locate where water, cool nights and an airport meet.
11. Livestock systems across Kenya
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    Dairy, pastoralism, ranching and poultry follow rainfall and markets as closely as crops do.
12. Why agriculture matters to Kenyan society
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    Food, jobs, factories, exports and rural towns all rest on farming - including food security as a national concern.
13. Trends in African agriculture
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    More land, not higher yields: Africa's production story, and where Kenya sits in it.
14. Why Kenya still imports food
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    The inquiry question: output per farmer is low, and the causes lock into a trap.
15. Strategies for raising farm productivity
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    A justified order: save the harvest, save the soil, secure water, then spend on inputs, markets and credit.