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Hindawi Publishing Corporation Economics Research International Volume 2012, Article ID 401472, 10 pages doi:10.1155/2012/401472 Research Article Demand for Meat in the Rural and Urban Areas of Kenya: A Focus on the Indigenous Chicken H. K. Bett,1, 2 M. P. Musyoka,3 K. J. Peters,1 and W. Bokelmann4 1 Department of Crops and Animal Sciences, Humboldt University of Berlin, Philippstraße 13, Haus 9, 10115 Berlin, Germany 2 Department of Agricultural Economics and Agribusiness Management, Egerton University, P.O. Box 536, Egerton 20115, Kenya 3 Department of Regional and Project Planning, University of Giessen, Senckenbergstraße 3, 35390 Giessen, Germany 4 Department of Agricultural Economics, Humboldt University of Berlin, Philippstraße 13, Haus 12, 10117 Berlin, Germany Correspondence should be addressed to H. K. Bett, hk bett@ Received 29 March 2012; Revised 26 June 2012; Accepted 30 June 2012 Academic Editor: Almas Heshmati Copyright © 2012 H. K. Bett et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. This study intends to estimate the demand for indigenous chicken meat in Kenya, including other available meat products for comparison purposes. Data used was collected from six counties. A total 930 rural and urban households were sampled. Linear Approximated Almost Ideal Demand System (LA/AIDS) model was used to obtain the demand elasticities and to examine the socioeconomic and demographic factors influencing the meat budget shares. The results ascertain that the socio-demographic factors such as household location, the proportion of household members and the family size are important factors in explaining