Research Catalog

Title

Effects of gender inequality in resource ownership and access on household welfare and food security in Kenya : a case study of West Pokot District / Pamela Marinda.

Author

Marinda, Pamela.

Publication

Frankfurt am Main ; New York : Peter Lang, 2006.

Items in the Library & Off-site

Details

Description

xix, 223 pages : illustrations; 22 cm.

Summary

Gender equality and empowerment of women is one of the effective ways to combat poverty, hunger and disease, and to stimulate development that is sustainable. The government of Kenya has made efforts to promote women's active involvement in all areas of societal development, in addition to ensuring that development is based on the contributions and concerns of both men and women. Despite these efforts, there are still clear gender inequalities in areas where both men and women's roles are visible, for example in health, education, agriculture and in some remunerated work. The aim of this paper is to assess the social and economic costs of gender discrimination; these costs are incurred in suboptimal resource allocation, in lost agricultural productivity and in deficient nutrition of household members ... This study argues that: with the same access and control of productive resources by both male and female headed households in a given geographical area, the levels of agricultural productivity and nutrition outcomes in male headed households should not be significantly different from those of female headed households. Any difference would be attributed to differences in access to resource caused by gender discrimination. The study analyses the food and nutrition situation in female and male headed households in relation to access to human capital, financial capital and land. The results show that human and financial capitals are the main resources that caused variations in both agricultural productivity and nutritional status in the two categories of households. Despite male headed households having access to more land than the female headed households, there was no significant difference in average area of land cultivated in the two categories of households. Economic cost analysis of unequal access to resources by gender is done using an econometric model.

Series Statement

Development economics and policy, 0948-1338 ; v. 51̣

Uniform Title

Development economics and policy ; Bd. 51.

Subject

• Women in agriculture > Kenya
• Food supply > Kenya
• Sex discrimination against women > Kenya
• Food supply
• Sex discrimination against women
• Women in agriculture
• Allokation
• Diskriminierung
• Ernährungssicherung
• Frau
• Frau > Diskriminierung > Allokation > Ernährungssicherung > West Pokot <Distrikt>
• Diskriminierung > Frau > Allokation > Ernährungssicherung > West Pokot <Distrikt>
• Allokation > Frau > Diskriminierung > Ernährungssicherung > West Pokot <Distrikt>
• Ernährungssicherung > Allokation > Frau > Diskriminierung > West Pokot <Distrikt>
• Kenya
• Distrikt West Pokot
• West Pokot <Distrikt> > Frau > Diskriminierung > Allokation > Ernährungssicherung

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 211-223).

Contents

Gender equality, economic growth and food security -- An overview of Kenya: resources and food security situation -- Theory, models and research methods -- Inter and intra-household resource allocation -- Effects of resource access & ownership on household welfare and food security -- Summary, conclusions and policy recommendations.

ISBN

• 0820498785
• 9780820498782
• 3631550790
• 9783631550793

LCCN

• 2006048662
• 9783631550793

OCLC

• ocm71275638
• 71275638
• SCSB-1431183

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library