Social networks and household food consumption smoothing in the presence of idiosyncratic shocks: insights from rural Kenya

Determinants of farmer empowerment in agriculture in Kenya: A Tobit approach

“…Social networks had a negative and significant association on the empowerment of females at the 5% significance level ( Table 3 ). Although this finding was unexpected, Mbugua et al. (2020) provide a plausible explanation, where they concluded that smallholder farmers in Kenya use social networks as informal insurance implying that social network can be used to compensate for lack of empowerment among farmers, in other words, stronger social ties can be an indication of lack of empowerment.…”

“…(2019) , social networks are important in diffusing agriculture and nutrition information in Kenya. Seeing that the negative association of social networks is through the resource and time domains, it could be argued that poor farmers (who are also less likely to be empowered) are more likely to strengthen their social networks as a form of insurance during times of need in line with findings of Mbugua et al. (2020) .…”

Intensity of adoption of integrated pest management practices in Rwanda: A fractional logit approach

“…Male headed households had 5.8 percent more likelihood of allocating their maize plots to PPT relative to their female counterparts. This can be due to number of socio-cultural factors ( Mbugua et al., 2020 ). This finding is in agreement with the result by Murage et al.…”