Gender-concerns: do they matter in smallholder dairy groups in Kenya?

Nyongesa, Dave; Mwirigi, Martin; Yongo, David; Makokha, S.

doi:10.1504/ijarge.2016.074673

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“…There was low participation of boys and girls in the different activities which was less than 5% of total labour for most of the activities except for cleaning the barn which was about 5.4%. These results are similar to Kimaro et al (2013) and Nyongesa et al (2016) who found that gender roles in dairy farming is jointly done by men and women.…”

Section: Disintegrated Gender Roles In Dairy Farming Career In Kenyasupporting

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Gender effect of entrepreneurial orientation on dairy farming career resilience in Kenya

Okello

Yıldız

2020

Cogent Food & Agriculture

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Section: Disintegrated Gender Roles In Dairy Farming Career In Kenyasupporting

confidence: 92%

Gender effect of entrepreneurial orientation on dairy farming career resilience in Kenya

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2020

Cogent Food & Agriculture

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“…On farms that implemented at least one of the recommended changes, compliance was lower when a male principal farmer or farm-hands received the recommendations compared to when the principal farmer was female. This could possibly be due to the more active role of women in smallholder dairy farms, as reported in an earlier study that women carried out 70% of all the activities in the farm (Nyongesa et al, 2016). As expected, when farmers deemed that recommendations would be hard to implement, the level of compliance for the specific comfort parameters was reduced.…”

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Assessment of farmers’ compliance in implementing recommended cow comfort changes and their effects on lying time, stall and cow cleanliness within smallholder dairy farms in Kenya

Kathambi

VanLeeuwen

Gitau

et al. 2019

Preventive Veterinary Medicine

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Our study aimed to evaluate farmers' compliance in implementing recommendations of farmspecific cow comfort changes, and the effects of these changes on lying time, stall cleanliness and cow cleanliness using a randomized controlled trial carried out on 100 smallholder dairy farms in Kenya, with 62 and 11 farms remaining in the intervention and control groups, respectively. recommendations compared to farms that had the female principal farmer receive the recommendations (OR=0.01); 2) farms that had recommended changes related to roof, alley and sharps fixes relative to stall design fixes (OR=0.13). Post-intervention, stall, udder and upper hindleg cleanliness scores improved significantly (p<0.0001, p=0.021 and p=0.017, respectively) in the intervention farms but not in the control farms. There was no significant difference in lying times between intervention and control farms, with 0.6 and 0.2 hour/day increases being recorded in the intervention and control groups, from the 10.9 and 10.4 hours/day at baseline, respectively. Giving farm-specific cow comfort recommendations to smallholder dairy farmers in Kenya, and providing them with a participatory role in the formulation and implementation of improvement recommendations ensured good acceptance and a high degree of implementation, and led to a subsequent improvement in cow comfort and cleanliness.

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“…In Central and Western Kenya, women tend to be responsible for most daily management tasks around dairy animal husbandry, including fodder and water provisioning, manure removal, milking, milk equipment cleaning, and milk delivery (Farnworth, 2015). Men are often in charge of non-daily activities that include the construction of cow sheds, arranging veterinary services or artificial insemination (AI), and the collection of milk payments from formal marketplaces (Nyongesa, Mwirigi, Yongo, & Makokha, 2016). Despite women's substantial contributions to dairy labor, their direct benefits are often tempered by cultural norms that privilege men in terms of control of the resource (e.g., cow ownership), decision-making associated with the animals (buying/selling), knowledge of available veterinary services, and with commensurate income from the sale of milk (Tavenner & Crane, 2016).…”

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Gendered reporting of household dynamics in the Kenyan dairy sector: trends and implications for low emissions dairy development

Tavenner

Fraval

Omondi

et al. 2018

Gender, Technology and Development

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Within the Kenyan dairy sector, climate change mitigation interventions are striving to sustainably intensify milk production while addressing the gender dynamics that mediate farmers' ability to effectively participate in, and benefit from, low emissions development. In order to better understand these gender dynamics, household surveys were deployed by the East African Dairy Development (EADD) program to collect information on current practices of decision-making, resources, and labor dynamics within dairy farm households. Using the EADD survey results as secondary data, this study analyzes emergent patterns in these domains among cattle-keeping households in Bomet, Nandi, Uasin Gishu, and Kericho counties in Western Kenya. In analyzing these patterns, paired sample tests revealed statistically significant differences in results based on the gender of the respondent. While there were some categories that women and men reported on similarly, other areas were hotly contested. These results provide important challenges, both methodologically and programmatically, in interpreting gender dynamics across these domains. This paper reflects on the challenges and the opportunities of these data for informing gender-equitable low emissions development in the Kenyan dairy sector.

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Gender-concerns: do they matter in smallholder dairy groups in Kenya?

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Gender effect of entrepreneurial orientation on dairy farming career resilience in Kenya

Gender effect of entrepreneurial orientation on dairy farming career resilience in Kenya

Assessment of farmers’ compliance in implementing recommended cow comfort changes and their effects on lying time, stall and cow cleanliness within smallholder dairy farms in Kenya

Gendered reporting of household dynamics in the Kenyan dairy sector: trends and implications for low emissions dairy development

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