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Gender relations in rural households of Kenya have been shaped by both indigenous customs and col... more Gender relations in rural households of Kenya have been shaped by both indigenous customs and colonial influences. This traditional organisation is now changing, led by the global market demand and prices that have triggered the drive of both institutions and farmers to turn the production more and more toward horticulture. Through the triangulation of data obtained from literature, 34 interviews and observations, our study based in Kibugu, Embu county has highlighted three livelihood strategies with diverse outcomes, despite the continuous aspect of the transition from subsistence to commercial production in horticulture. Overall, those strategies are the consequence of the uneven repartition of access to irrigation, essential to the production of horticulture. From the point of view of the task division it is clear that the first part of the transition process threatens mainly wives, increasing the workload traditionally attributed to them. Nevertheless, the commercialisation beco...
Gender relations in rural households of Kenya have been shaped by both indigenous customs and col... more Gender relations in rural households of Kenya have been shaped by both indigenous customs and colonial influences. This traditional organisation is now changing, led by the global market demand and prices that have triggered the drive of both institutions and farmers to turn the production more and more toward horticulture. Through the triangulation of data obtained from literature, 34 interviews and observations, our study based in Kibugu, Embu county has highlighted three livelihood strategies with diverse outcomes, despite the continuous aspect of the transition from subsistence to commercial production in horticulture. Overall, those strategies are the consequence of the uneven repartition of access to irrigation, essential to the production of horticulture. From the point of view of the task division it is clear that the first part of the transition process threatens mainly wives, increasing the workload traditionally attributed to them. Nevertheless, the commercialisation beco...