@article{Nyangweso:329812,
      recid = {329812},
      author = {Nyangweso, Philip  and Wibberley, John },
      title = {Farmer Managerial Sovereignty: An International Issue  Glimpsed in Kenya & the UK},
      journal = {International Journal of Agricultural Management},
      address = {2020-10},
      number = {1029-2022-1270},
      year = {2020},
      abstract = {Decision-making is a crucial component of farm management.  Farmers may choose to cede decisionmaking to others inside  or outside their businesses (as specialists, contractors or  consultants). However, their decision-making may be [or may  feel] usurped against their will. This Paper explores  Farmer Managerial Sovereignty (FMS). FMS is about the  extent to which decision-making is freely and flexibly in  the hands of practical farmers and farm managers at farm  level rather than with bureaucrats, policymakers, the  suppliers of their inputs and/or the buyers of their  outputs. This paper explores whether or not FMS has changed  over the past two decades, and if so, how? Do farmers/farm  managers in Kenya feel more or less change in FMS over  these past two decades than those in the UK or vice versa?  Two somewhat eclectic samples of 24 contrasting  farmers/farm managers from Kenya and 24 from the UK were  asked to provide indicative responses: Kenyan farmers felt  FMS only lessening somewhat, notably due to increased  government bureaucracy and public scrutiny. The UK sample  aggregate FMS score indicated a much lessened to lessened  overall FMS during the past two decades, especially due to  increasing environmental rules, pesticide limitations,  increased government bureaucracy and public scrutiny.},
      url = {http://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/329812},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.22004/ag.econ.329812},
}