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Women, Livestock Ownership and Markets: Bridging the Gender Gap in Eastern and Southern Africa book cover

1st Edition

Women, Livestock Ownership and Markets Bridging the Gender Gap in Eastern and Southern Africa

Edited By Jemimah Njuki, Elizabeth Waithanji, Joyce Lyimo-Macha, Juliet Kariuki, Samuel Mburu Copyright 2013
168 Pages 60 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

168 Pages 60 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

168 Pages 60 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge
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This book provides empirical evidence from Kenya, Tanzania and Mozambique and from different production systems of the importance of livestock as an asset to women and their participation in livestock and livestock product markets. It explores the issues of intra-household income management and economic benefits of livestock markets to women, focusing on how types of markets, the types of... Read more

1. Gender and Livestock: Key Issues, Challenges and Opportunities 

Jemimah Njuki and Pascal Sanginga 

2. Methods for Analysing Intra-household Livestock Ownership, Management and Marketing 

Jemimah Njuki, Juliet Kariuki and Samuel Mburu 

3. Gender, Livestock and Other Asset Ownership 

Jemimah Njuki, Samuel Mburu and Nicholas Ndhiwa 

4. Gender and Livestock Marketing 

Elizabeth Waithanji, Jemimah Njuki and Nabintu Bagalwa 

5. Livestock Markets and Intra-household Income Management 

Jemimah Njuki, Samuel Mburu, Elizabeth Waithanji and Paula Pimentel 

6. Access to Livestock Information and Other Financial Services 

Samuel Mburu, Jemimah Njuki and Juliet Kariuki  

7. Women, Livestock Ownership and Food Security 

Juliet Kariuki, Jemimah Njuki, Samuel Mburu and Elizabeth Waithanji 

8. Making Livestock Research and Development Programs and Policies more Gender Responsive 

Jemimah Njuki and Beth Miller 

9. Conclusion 

Pascal Sanginga and Jemimah Njuki 

Index

Biography

Jemimah Njuki is a Sociologist and Team Leader in Poverty Gender and Impact at the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI), Nairobi, Kenya.

Pascal C. Sanginga is Senior Program Specialist for Agriculture and Environment at the International Development Research Centre (IDRC) Regional Office for Eastern and Southern Africa , Nairobi, Kenya.

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