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Abstract
Despite the resurgence of parastatal marketing boards and strategic grain reserves over the last decade in eastern and southern Africa, there is little empirical evidence about how their activities affect smallholder input use and cropping decisions. This paper uses panel survey
data from 1997-2007 on Kenyan smallholders to investigate the effect of Kenya’s National
Cereal Produce Board (NCPB) activities on farm-gate maize price expectations, output
supply, and factor demand.