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fIGuRe 2.9 Lorenz curves of eight key resources in Thiririka intensive study site, Kiambu
District, Kenya, 1997. See CD for color image.

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Gikabu Gitangu Githima

Food Crops Coffee Tea Napier

Kiawamagira Mahindi Thiririka

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fIGuRe 2.10 Allocation of land resource to various crops in the intensive study site (ISS)
Kiambu district, 1997. For each village, the average per-farm acreage of a crop was expressed
as a percentage of the average farm size in that village. See CD for color image.

main products were tea and dairy. Thus, only Githima, Thiririka, and Gikabu had
agricultural activities confluent with their agroecological classification. The other
three villages were mainly focusing on dairy and horticultural vegetable production,
irrespective of their agroecological classification. Little or no pyrethrum was being