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Championing gender in agricultural services in Kenya

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Title Championing gender in agricultural services in Kenya
 
Creator Bikketi, Edward
Gumucio, Tatiana
Cecchi, Francesco
Kramer, Berber
Waithaka, Lilian
Waweru, Carol
 
Subject agriculture
gender
crop insurance
gender analysis
insurance
men
poverty
poverty alleviation
seeds
social inclusion
subsidies
training
women
 
Description Key messages:
• Champion farmers are male and female influencers recruited to support the delivery of agricultural services to fellow farmers within their communities (including seeds, advisories, and crop insurance), thereby promoting gender and social inclusion.
• Providing insurance as a stand-alone product is too expensive to build a sustainable and cost-effective champion farmer model; there is a need to integrate the model with other services, including the provision of seeds, and to leverage government subsidies.
• Champion farmers face steep competition from other service providers in the provision of seeds, but their networks give them opportunities to tap into underserved markets, as they have connections with women-led farmer collectives.
• Female champion farmers’ socially ascribed gender roles and responsibilities related to homecare contribute to time poverty and drudgery and potentially inhibit the extent to which women can benefit from their champion role.
• It is necessary to promote a better understanding of insurance among farmers and build farmers’ trust in services and products through additional training of champion farmers, sensitization of farmers, and awareness creation.
 
Date 2022-12-01
2023-01-13T18:29:30Z
2023-01-13T18:29:30Z
 
Type Other
 
Identifier Bikketi, Edward; Gumucio, Tatiana; Cecchi, Francesco; Kramer, Berber; Waithaka, Lilian; and Waweru, Carol. 2022. Championing gender in agricultural services in Kenya. Promoting Stress-Tolerant Varieties at Scale - Kenya Project Note December 2022. Washington, DC: International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI). https://doi.org/10.2499/p15738coll2.136519
https://hdl.handle.net/10568/127085
https://doi.org/10.2499/p15738coll2.136519
 
Language en
 
Relation Promoting Stress-Tolerant Varieties at Scale - Kenya Project Note
 
Rights CC-BY-4.0
Open Access
 
Format application/pdf
 
Publisher International Food Policy Research Institute