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Women, land rights and the environment: the Kenyan experience
(2006)
Gender neutral statutory law on land and environment and its interplay with customary, religious and other social norms has impacted significantly on women's rights to access land and environmental resources. To change the ...
Gender bias in attitude towards girls in the Use of computers in selected schools in central Africa
(2012)
This paper examines whether there is attitudinal gender bias towards girls in the
use of computers in selected schools in Central Africa. Drawing from the theory
of socialization, the paper also establishes the causes ...
The Food Security Equation: What is the Role of Gender and Social Amenities in this Paradigm? A Focus on Rural Households in Yala division, Siaya district, Kenya
(2004)
Food security remains a key challenge to the development efforts of most poor nations. This study investigated the significance of gender (denoted by number of male, female and children in a household) and social amenities ...
Gender Analysis of Economic Efficiency in Smallholder Tea Production in Kenya
(University of Nairobi,, 2003)
If the productivity of tea among the smallholders can only increase to about 2500 kg/ha/yr, the national projection of 300 thousand metric tones would be realized without the need to allocate more land to tea enterprise. ...
The role of the Kenya Agricultural Research Institute (KARI) in the attainment of household food security in Kenya: A policy and organizational review
(Springer, 2012)
The Kenya Agricultural Research Institute (KARI)
is a government organization mandated to conduct research
into, among others, crop and livestock production and marketing.
In 2009, it launched a new strategic plan for ...
Gender and Ideology
(1995)
Specialty preferences among medical students in a Kenyan university
(2010)
Background
Specialty distribution in Kenya continues to exhibit gender disparities despite the increasing number of female medical students graduating each year. This study aimed at assessing specialty preferences and ...
Gender, Rights and Development: An East African Perspective
(Taylor & Francis, 2008)
The article problematises legal issues surrounding women's rights to land and related resources. It avers that in a plural legal context, there is need to engage all forms of law if law is to be an effective medium for ...