Agriculture Reference
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table 6.5 (continued)
Researcher-Proposed study-site-level Indicators of Health and sustainability
for the Kiambu agroecosystem, Kenya, 1998
classification
Indicator
name
Investments
26. Heads of cattle per LUU
Cattle
27. Sheep and goats per LUU
Shoats
29. Acreage of farmland/LUU
AreaAgric
30. Proportion of LUU with
coffee production
Coffee
31. Proportion of LUU with tea
production
Tea
32. Indicator-resource
ownership/LUU
Resources
Farm
efficiency
Outputs
33. Income from cash crop
IncPACC
Profitability
34. Average profitability
Profitability
Income
Amount
35. Employment rate
Employ
36. Income per person
PerCapt
Nonfarm
28. Proportion LUU with
nonfarm income
NonFarm
Savings
37. Proportion of LUU with
bank accounts
BankAccount
Social
Knowledge
and
information
Formal
38. Postprimary education per
LUU
Education
Informal
39. Grandparents living with
grandchildren
GrandChild
Sources
40. Proportion LUU with
extension contacts
extension
41. Proportion LUU with
frequent visits to friends
VisitsF
42. Distance to Nairobi
NbiDist
Linkages
Familial ties
43. Nuclear family outside
village
OutRel
44. Proportion LUU with
frequent visits to relatives
VisitsR
Organization
Organizations
45. Average membership in
CBOs
Membership
CBO, community-based organization; LUU, land-use unit
with the lowest mass included expenditure on agrochemicals = none, school dropouts =
present, head of cattle per available labor = missing, income per acre of cash crop =
high, hospitalizations per person per year = high, income per acre of cash crop = low,
recorded vaccination events/child = high, per capita income = missing, coffee produc-
tion = present, distance to water source = far, and soil fertility score = high in order of
increasing mass. Those with the highest mass included proportion of indicator com-
mon foods eaten = low, distance to water source = close, coffee production = absent,
soil fertility score = low, napier production = absent, and tea production = absent.
 
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