Urban Support for Rural Development in Kenya

Abstract

Urban industries produce necessary intermediate goods that are essential inputs into agriculture, if that industry is to achieve a high level of productivity. Much of agricultural output must become intermediate inputs for well-developed urban industries for effective markets for agricultural goods to exist. Analysis of various aspects of the system of urban centers in Kenya suggests the development of agriculture is constrained because the urban system is not adequate in size or sufficiently distributed in space to support high enough levels of interdependency and interindustry interaction to emerge.