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Beyond a unitary household measure: Does Gender matter in Legume Seed Systems among Smallholder Farmers?

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Title Beyond a unitary household measure: Does Gender matter in Legume Seed Systems among Smallholder Farmers?
 
Creator Njuguna, E M
Mwema, C
Kandiwa, V
 
Subject Gender Research
Legume Crops
 
Description We employ a non-unitary household model to analyze the main Pigeonpea seed channels for in Kenya. The paper is based on a household survey conducted on a 500 randomly selected households within three counties of Eastern Kenya. The study sites are based on the distance from the main trading center (county headquarters) which informs agro business infrastructure. We assess the participation in seed channels with regards to joint plots, women plots and male plots for Pigeonpeas legumes. More than half of the Pigeonpea plots (>50 %) in the sample are managed jointly by men and women; while around 10% are managed entirely by women. There were very few plots (
 
Date 2016-09
 
Type Conference or Workshop Item
PeerReviewed
 
Format application/pdf
 
Language en
 
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Identifier http://oar.icrisat.org/9764/1/191.%20Determinants%20of%20governance%20in%20smallholder%20contract%20farming.pdf
Njuguna, E M and Mwema, C and Kandiwa, V (2016) Beyond a unitary household measure: Does Gender matter in Legume Seed Systems among Smallholder Farmers? In: 5th International Conference of the African Association of Agricultural Economists, September 23-26, 2016, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.