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Date: Fri, 21 Oct 2016 14:13:35 +0000
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My name is Elisha Otieno Gogo from Kenya, a Ph.D student at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin (translated as Humboldt University of Berlin), Germany. My research topic (preharvest and postharvest treatments (e.g. UV-C, UV-B) for quality assurance of African indigenous leafy vegetables) is under interdisciplinary research project addressing food security in East Africa (HORTINLEA).

I am contributing to question 3.3.4 ("Many small farmers participate in the rural non-farm economy to generate additional income. Does this increase the contribution of small farms to food security and nutrition?"):  

During my Ph.D. research work, I have had the opportunity to interview farmers growing African indigenous leafy vegetables who are mainly small scale farmers. I would like to concur that small farmers participate in the rural non-farm economy to generate additional income as I found out in my study and for sure this can help increase the contribution of small farms to food security and nutrition. 

In fact, food security has been defined by the FAO not only in terms of access to, and availability of food, but also in terms of resource distribution to produce food and purchasing power to buy food where it is not produced. Therefore, this extra income generation helps small scale farmers to have that purchasing power to afford that food which they don't produce.

Gogo, Elisha Otieno
Ph.D. Student (Horticultural Sciences)
Humboldt University of Berlin
Faculty of Life Sciences
Albrecht Thaer-Institute of Agricultural and Horticultural Sciences
Division Urban Plant Ecophysiology
Lentzeallee 55-57, 
14195 Berlin, 
Germany
Email: elishag6 (at) gmail.com / elisha.gogo (at) hu-berlin.de
Mobile phone: +4915212950891
+254721205576

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