Food security, gender and resilience : improving smallholder and subsistence farming / edited by Leigh Brownhill, Esther M. Njuguna, Kimberly L. Bothi, Bernard Pelletier, Lutta W. Muhammad and Gordon M. Hickey.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Brownhill, Leigh, editor.

Series:

Earthscan food and agriculture series.

Earthscan food and agriculture series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Food security--Kenya.

Food security.

Women in agriculture--Kenya.

Women in agriculture.

Farms, Small--Kenya.

Farms, Small.

Subsistence farming--Kenya.

Subsistence farming.

Kenya.

Physical Description:

xvii, 176 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Routledge, [2016]

Contents:

Introduction : Gender, Food Security and Resilience in Kenya / Leigh Brownhill and Esther M. Njuguna

A Participatory and Integrated Agricultural Extension Approach to Enhancing Farm Resilience through Innovation and Gender Equity / Lutta W. Muhammad, Immaculate N. Maina, Bernard Pelletier, and Gordon M. Hickey

Exploring the Relationships between Gender, Social Networks and Agricultural Innovation in Two Smallholder Farming Communities in Machakos County, Kenya / Colleen M. Eidt, Gordon M. Hickey, and Bernard Pelletier

Land to Feed My Grandchildren : Grandmothers' Challenge to Access Land Resources in Semi-Arid Kenya / June Y.T. Po and Zipporah Bukania

Gendered Food and Seed Producing Traditions for Pearl Millet (Pennisetum glaucum) and Sorghum (Sorghum bicolor) in Tharaka-Nithi County, Kenya / Megan Mucioki, Timothy Johns, and Samuel Kimathi Mucioki

Banking on Change : An Ethnographic Exploration into Rural Finance as a Gendered Resilience Practice among Smallholders / Carly James and June Y.T. Po

Nested Economies : Gendered Small-livestock Enterprise for Household Food Security / Leigh Brownhill, Esther M. Njuguna, Erick Mungube Ouma, Malo Nzioka, and Esther Kihoro

Women Second : Reflecting on Gendered Resilience within Formal Regulatory Policies for Forest-based Livelihood Activities in Kenya / Stephanie Shumsky, Kimberly L. Bothi, Elizabeth Nambiro, and Patrick Maundu

Accountability and Citizen Participation in Devolved Agricultural Policy-making : Insights from Makueni County, Kenya / Leigh Brownhill, Tony Moturi, and Gordon M. Hickey

The Resilience Umbrella : A Conceptual Tool for Building Gendered Resilience in Agricultural Research, Practice and Policy / Leigh Brownhill and Esther M. Njuguna.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781138816947

1138816949

OCLC:

914225513

Publisher Number:

40025793209