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| Title: | Gender and Contract Farming in Kericho, Kenya |
| Authors: | Bülow, Dorthe von Sĝrensen, Anne |
| Year: | 1993 |
| Periodical: | Review of African Political Economy |
| Volume: | 20 |
| Issue: | 56 |
| Period: | March |
| Pages: | 38-52 |
| Language: | English |
| Geographic term: | Kenya |
| Subjects: | gender relations Kipsigis contract farming tea Agriculture, Natural Resources and the Environment Women's Issues Peoples of Africa (Ethnic Groups) Development and Technology agriculture Labor and Employment Cultural Roles Sex Roles |
| External link: | https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/03056249308703984 |
| Abstract: | This article demonstrates the necessity of looking at gender as a major analytical category in the analysis of agricultural development. Contrary to other production systems, like plantations and State farms, it is characteristic of smallholder outgrower schemes that their operation is based on the farmers' control over land and labour. However, this study of smallholder tea production in Kericho District, Kenya, shows that men do not automatically control their wives' labour. In the survey area, one-third of all tea plots were partly or completely neglected largely because of conflicts between spouses. The problem of low productivity in smallholder tea production is thus intimately linked to prevailing gender relations in a local community, a factor characteristically ignored by studies of smallholder contract farming, which tend to focus narrowly on technical, institutional and economic factors. The article is based on fieldwork carried out between March 1985 and April 1986 in Mosop Location, Kericho District, which is mainly inhabited by the Kipsigis. Bibliogr., sum. |
