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Title 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
Published London : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2016
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Description 1 online resource : illustrations
Series Earthscan food and agriculture series
Earthscan food and agriculture.
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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Food security -- Kenya
Women in agriculture -- Kenya
Farms, Small -- Kenya
Subsistence farming -- Kenya
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Industries -- General.
Farms, Small
Food security
Subsistence farming
Women in agriculture
Kenya
Form Electronic book
Author Brownhill, Leigh, editor.
ISBN 9781315745855
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