Saturday, March 07, 2009
The Numbers Game
In Kenya, about 70 per cent of the handsets come from Chungking Mansions. Mathews leans across the table to check the figure with a rangy Kenyan in his mid-20s sitting down to a curry. "It's more," says the trader. "In Kenya, it's more like 80 per cent of phones come through Chungking Mansions." more
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Posted by Kevin Walker at 3/07/2009 02:20:00 PM 0 comments
Thursday, September 20, 2007
Country Wins UK Support in War On Air Freighted Food
The battle to protect Kenyan suppliers of organic produce in their biggest market is heating up with the UK government and UN agency ITC throwing their weight behind developing world growers. more
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Posted by Kevin Walker at 9/20/2007 08:09:00 PM 1 comments
Friday, June 08, 2007
Precision Agriculture
NASA initiative extols the benefits of remote sensing, mapping, satellite imagery for improving crop yields, reducing fertilizer use, keeping records, increasing profits, reducing pollution.
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Posted by Kevin Walker at 6/08/2007 10:47:00 AM 0 comments
Monday, June 04, 2007
Mobiles and market prices
For many years, anecdotes have abounded about the ways in which mobile phones promote more efficient markets and encourage economic activity. One particularly popular tale is that of the fisherman who is able to call several nearby markets from his boat to establish where his catch will fetch the highest price.
A new paper, described here, fills in the details of this story.
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Posted by Kevin Walker at 6/04/2007 09:39:00 PM 0 comments
Wednesday, April 11, 2007
Flowers
...are one of Kenya's highest sources of foreign exchange. In July 2007 Kenya Flower Council launched a campaign in the UK called 'Grown under the sun' to inform UK customers that 'purchasing fresh Kenyan produce helps sustain livelihoods of hundreds of thousands of farming communities in Kenya who depend on trade with Britain' More details here.
An older article here.
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Posted by Kevin Walker at 4/11/2007 07:31:00 AM 0 comments