The paper contributes to an understanding of the determinants of food security with a bias on the link between gender … Kenya. Both parametric and non-parametric econometric techniques are used to ensure robustness of the results from the … important information that has impact on food security. Since area expansion is infeasible due to land scarcity in Kenya, policy …

investigate the gender implications of recently established farmer groups. Traditionally, banana has been a women’s crop in Kenya …With the commercialization of agriculture, women are increasingly disadvantaged because of persistent gender … technology could potentially accelerate this trend. Here, we use survey data of small-scale banana producers in Kenya to …

investigate the gender implications of recently established farmer groups. Traditionally, banana has been a women’s crop in Kenya …With the commercialization of agriculture, women are increasingly disadvantaged because of persistent gender … technology could potentially accelerate this trend. Here, we use survey data of small-scale banana producers in Kenya to …

universities in Kenya. Toutkoushian's (2006) model that links RP to a variety of economic variables is used. Stratified sampling … was used ensuring incorporation of the academics heterogeneity factors such as gender, rank, type of university (private … or public) and academic qualification. The study used 277 academics randomly drawn from universities in Kenya. 17 heads …

different between female and male headed households in the case of Kenya, using the Kenya Integrated Household Budget and …

Highlands of Kenya. The study tested the hypotheses that farmers concentrate most of their labour on crops with the highest …

There has been a decline in crop productivity in Kenya, a situation that has contributed to the raising food insecurity … particularly vulnerable to food insecurity. Given the rising percentage of female headed households in Kenya (estimated at 37% in … at examining gender differentials in farm resource ownership and how it affects the technical efficiency in maize …

This study examined the contribution of gender with special emphasis on women farmers towards rural agriculture as well … Province of Kenya. Data were collected from a total of 161 women farmers, 32 women groups as well as 254 individual males … farmers engaged in small-scale production of various food crops in Western Province in Kenya for a period of 1 year. Data were …

This paper explores the link between the gender of a household head and food security in rural Kenya. The results show …

Agriculture is a main contributor to pro-poor growth in Africa, but gender inequalities in the sector hold back … agricultural growth and affect household welfare negatively. The sector has been characterized by a lack of gender …