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Women and food security in Kenya

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  • Horenstein, Nadine R.

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Women play a key role in producing and providing food for the family, managing and allocating household resources, and caring for children. Alleviating their time constraints is the single most important way to improve household food security - since it will allow women to take advantage of new resources and opportunities that may have direct links to their ability to assure household food security. A combination of complementary interventions that address the multiplicity of women's household and market roles is likely to be the most effective. If the employment possibilities and incomes of women are to improve on a continuous basis, short-term solutions based on the development and dissemination of new technologies must be complemented by longer-term policies to increase women's access to training, credit, and other resources.

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  • Horenstein, Nadine R., 1989. "Women and food security in Kenya," Policy Research Working Paper Series 232, The World Bank.
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    1. Po, June Y.T. & Hickey, Gordon M., 2018. "Local institutions and smallholder women’s access to land resources in semi-arid Kenya," Land Use Policy, Elsevier, vol. 76(C), pages 252-263.
    2. repec:zib:zbseps:v:1:y:2022:i:1:p:25-28 is not listed on IDEAS
    3. Depetris Chauvin, Nicolas & Porto, Guido G., 2011. "Market Competition in Export Cash Crops and Farm Income," 2012 Conference, August 18-24, 2012, Foz do Iguacu, Brazil 126159, International Association of Agricultural Economists.
    4. Mehra, Rekha & Gammage, Sarah, 1999. "Trends, Countertrends, and Gaps in Women's Employment," World Development, Elsevier, vol. 27(3), pages 533-550, March.
    5. Mehra, Rekha, 1995. "Raising Agricultural Productivity: The Role of Women Farmers," 1994 Conference, August 22-29, 1994, Harare, Zimbabwe 183400, International Association of Agricultural Economists.

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