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An exploratory study of dairying intensification, women’s decision making, and time use and implications for child nutrition in Kenya

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Title An exploratory study of dairying intensification, women’s decision making, and time use and implications for child nutrition in Kenya
 
Creator Njuki, Jemimah
Wyatt, A.
Baltenweck, Isabelle
Yount, K.
Null, C.
Ramakrishnan, U.
Girard, Amy W.
Sreenath, S.
 
Subject animal production
dairies
gender
 
Description Dairy intensification as a development strategy is expected to improve household nutrition, yet the pathways by which this occurs are not well understood. This article examines how women’s time use and decision-making patterns related to dairy income and consumption are associated with dairy intensification, as a way of exploring the links between intensification and nutrition. Results from our mixed methods study conducted with households representing low, medium and high levels of dairy intensification in rural Kenya indicated that children in high-intensity households received more milk than children in medium-intensity households. While women seemed to be gaining control over evening milk sales decisions, men seemed to be increasingly controlling total dairy income, a trend countered by the increase in reported joint decision making. Women from medium-intensity households reported spending more time on dairy activities than women from high-intensity households. More research on how dairy interventions affect women is needed.
 
Date 2016-09
2015-08-15T05:40:04Z
2015-08-15T05:40:04Z
 
Type Journal Article
 
Identifier Njuki, J.M., Wyatt, A., Baltenweck, I., Yount, K., Null, C., Ramakrishnan, U., Girard, A.W. and Sreenath, S. 2015. An exploratory study of dairying intensification, women’s decision making, and time use and implications for child nutrition in Kenya. European Journal of Development Research
0957-8811
https://hdl.handle.net/10568/67914
https://doi.org/10.1057/ejdr.2015.22
 
Language en
 
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Publisher Springer Science and Business Media LLC
 
Source European Journal of Development Research