What Determines Gender Inequality in Household Food Security in Kenya? Application of Exogenous Switching Treatment Regression

Kassie, Menale; Ndiritu, S. Wagura; Stage, Jesper

doi:10.1016/j.worlddev.2013.10.025

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“…The main explanatory variables (the independent variables) were selected based on previous studies examining factors influencing food security [7,28,29]. These variables included: income, assets, labour, crop and activity diversification, agricultural yields and market orientation.…”

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“…Transport assets (bicycles, trucks, motorbikes, etc.) help increase access to markets and mobility to attend meetings, training and other events, enhancing access to, and use of, information, social capital and social networks [7]. The use of farm machinery, tools, etc.…”

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“…There is evidence that the least food secure households, and especially femaleheaded ones, are less likely to adopt new agricultural technologies and practices that could improve their farm Open Access *Correspondence: s.silvestri@cgiar.org 1 International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI), PO Box 3079, Nairobi 00100, Kenya Full list of author information is available at the end of the article productivity and make them more resilient or less vulnerable to climate change [7,8]. While there is increasing evidence that farmers are changing their practices in response to several drivers-including both climate shocks and longer term climatic trends-adoption rates of new practices remain low and the changes being made typically involve relatively small rather than more forward-looking investments aimed at conserving scarce resources and enhancing resilience [8,9].…”

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Households and food security: lessons from food secure households in East Africa

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Background:What are the key factors that contribute to household-level food security? What lessons can we learn from food secure households? What agricultural options and management strategies are likely to benefit femaleheaded households in particular? This paper addresses these questions using a unique dataset of 600 households that allows us to explore a wide range of indicators capturing different aspects of performance and well-being for different types of households-female-headed, male-headed, food secure, food insecure-and assess livelihoods options and strategies and how they influence food security. The analysis is based on a detailed farm household survey carried out in three sites in Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania.Results: Our results suggest that food insecurity may not be more severe for female-headed households than maleheaded households. We found that food secure farming households have a wider variety of crops on their farms and are more market oriented than are the food insecure. More domestic assets do not make female-headed households more food secure. For the other categories of assets (livestock, transport, and productive), we did not find evidence of a correlation with food security. Different livelihood portfolios are being pursued by male versus female-headed households, with female-headed households less likely to grow high-value crops and more likely to have a less diversified crop portfolio. Conclusions:These findings help identify local, national and regional policies and actions for enhancing food security of female-headed as well as male-headed households. These include interventions that improve households' access to information, e.g., though innovative communication and knowledge-sharing efforts and support aimed at enhancing women's and men's agricultural market opportunities.

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“…PSNP, a requirement in an exogenous switching regression model (Maddala, 1983 Second, we adopt the approach of Kassie et al (2014) …”

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Does Ethiopia’s Productive Safety Net Program improve child nutrition?

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We study the link between Ethiopia's Productive Safety Net Program (PSNP) and short-run nutrition outcomes among children age 5 years and younger. We use 2006 and 2010 survey data from Northern Ethiopia to estimate parameters of an exogenous switching regression. This allows us to measure the differential impacts of household characteristics on weight-for-height Z-score of children in member and non-member households in PSNP. We find that the magnitude and significance of household covariates differ in samples of children from PSNP and non-PSNP households. Controlling for a set of observable features of children and households we find that children in member households have weight-for-height Z-scores that are 0.55 points higher than those of children in non-member households. We conclude that the PSNP is providing positive short-term nutritional benefits for children, especially in those households that are able to leverage underemployed female labor.

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“…female-headed households are more prone to food insecurity (Kassie et al 2014;Tibesigwa and Visser 2016). Providing women with equal land-ownership rights and access to credit can help them achieve their full productivity potential and could reduce those who suffer from hunger by 150 million globally (FAO 2011).…”

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Assessing the food security outcomes of industrial crop expansion in smallholder settings: insights from cotton production in Northern Ghana and sugarcane production in Central Ethiopia

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The current industrial crop (IC) expansion in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) may have important ramifications for food security. This study proposes a rapid appraisal method that can capture the food security outcomes of IC expansion in smallholder settings in SSA. A key element of this approach is a common unit of household caloric intake that captures food security across its four pillars (availability, access, utilization, stability). This approach also considers the role of women in household food security. The proposed approach is tested in two radically different smallholder IC settings: cotton production in Northern Ghana and sugarcane production in Central Ethiopia.

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What Determines Gender Inequality in Household Food Security in Kenya? Application of Exogenous Switching Treatment Regression

Cited by 224 publications

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Households and food security: lessons from food secure households in East Africa

Households and food security: lessons from food secure households in East Africa

Does Ethiopia’s Productive Safety Net Program improve child nutrition?

Assessing the food security outcomes of industrial crop expansion in smallholder settings: insights from cotton production in Northern Ghana and sugarcane production in Central Ethiopia

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