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Gender Roles and Constraints in Beekeeping: A Case from Kitui County, Kenya

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http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/0005772X.2016.1275490
10.1080/0005772X.2016.1275490
 
Title Gender Roles and Constraints in Beekeeping: A Case from Kitui County, Kenya
 
Creator Mburu, P D M
Affognon, H D
Irungu, P
Mburu, J
Raina, S
 
Subject African Agriculture
Gender Research
Kenya
 
Description Beekeeping is a form of agriculture that
involves management of wild or domesticated
bee colonies for production of
honey and wax. Generally, in Kenya,
women perform most of the agricultural
activities (GOK, 2005; Oduol et al., 2013).
Even though they play a major role in
these activities, they end up receiving a
fraction of the income generated. In most
of the African countries, beekeeping has
often been a male-dominated enterprise
(Nel & Illgner, 2004; Ogaba & Akongo,
2001; Shackleton, Paumgarten, Kassa,
Husselman, & Zida, 2011). However, with
intervention from rural development
agencies, a change in this practice could
occur...
 
Publisher Taylor & Francis
 
Date 2017-06
 
Type Article
PeerReviewed
 
Format application/pdf
 
Language en
 
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Identifier http://oar.icrisat.org/10011/1/Gender%20Roles%20and%20Constraints%20in%20Beekeeping.pdf
Mburu, P D M and Affognon, H D and Irungu, P and Mburu, J and Raina, S (2017) Gender Roles and Constraints in Beekeeping: A Case from Kitui County, Kenya. Bee World, 94 (2). pp. 54-59. ISSN 0005-772X