Diversity in income-generating activities for sedentarized pastoral women in northern Kenya
2000
I. Nduma | P. Kristjanson | J. McPeak
This article explores how women adopt new town-based income generation activties as they settle around market centres. The study focuses on this process among East Africa pastoralists. The study finds that:while settling in or near towns presents women with new opportunities, household poverty may prevent them from exploiting these opportunities or lead them to adopt environmentally unsustainable survival strategies that contribute to the localized degradation of the natural resource basesmall scale trading, has become increasingly important as market integration increases in northern KenyaKorr women are by no means all pursuing the same income generating activitiesThe article recommends that potential poverty alleviation strategies include:emphasis on research and investments aimed at improvements in milk marketing opportunities and efficienciesincreasing regional employment opportunitiesstrengthening collective action by pastoral womenincreasing women's level of participation in decision making aimed at sustainable use of natural resources
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