The effect of membership in producer organizations on women's empowerment: Evidence from Kenya

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cg.authorship.typesCGIAR and advanced research instituteen_US
cg.contributor.affiliationWageningen University & Researchen_US
cg.contributor.affiliationWorld Vegetable Centeren_US
cg.contributor.affiliationInternational Livestock Research Instituteen_US
cg.contributor.crpLivestocken_US
cg.contributor.donorNetherlands Organisation for Scientific Researchen_US
cg.coverage.countryKenyaen_US
cg.coverage.iso3166-alpha2KEen_US
cg.coverage.regionAfricaen_US
cg.coverage.regionEastern Africaen_US
cg.creator.identifierAlessandra Galiè: 0000-0001-9868-7733en_US
cg.howPublishedFormally Publisheden_US
cg.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.1016/j.wsif.2021.102492en_US
cg.isijournalISI Journalen_US
cg.issn1879-243Xen_US
cg.journalWomen's Studies International Forumen_US
cg.reviewStatusPeer Reviewen_US
cg.subject.ilriGENDERen_US
cg.subject.ilriLIVELIHOODSen_US
cg.subject.ilriLIVESTOCKen_US
cg.subject.ilriPOLICYen_US
cg.subject.ilriRESEARCHen_US
cg.subject.ilriWOMENen_US
cg.subject.impactAreaGender equality, youth and social inclusionen_US
cg.subject.sdgSDG 5 - Gender equalityen_US
cg.volume87en_US
dc.contributor.authorMwambi, M.en_US
dc.contributor.authorBijman, J.en_US
dc.contributor.authorGaliè, Alessandraen_US
dc.date.accessioned2021-06-16T11:09:50Zen_US
dc.date.available2021-06-16T11:09:50Zen_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10568/113978en_US
dc.titleThe effect of membership in producer organizations on women's empowerment: Evidence from Kenyaen_US
dcterms.abstractIn developing countries, producer organizations (POs) are important for achieving women empowerment mainly through promoting women's access to the organization's resources and services. However, by improving access to markets and technologies, household membership in POs often results in commercialization of smallholder farming, leading to women disempowerment as men take over control of the farm. We use data from dairy smallholders in Kenya to explore the impact of membership in bargaining and processing POs on women empowerment. Applying the Women Empowerment Livestock Index, we capture six domains of empowerment: production; nutrition; resources; income; opportunities; and workload. We find that when a household joins any PO, regardless of whether the man or the woman in the household is the registered member, women achieve a higher control over production decisions, buying and selling of land and cows, use of loans and receiving dairy income. Distinguishing by gender of membership, there is stronger women empowerment when the woman in the household is a member. We also find that woman membership in bargaining POs results in greater empowerment, in terms of ownership of cows, than woman membership in processing POs. The paper suggests that women empowerment is affected by the functional characteristics of POs.en_US
dcterms.accessRightsOpen Accessen_US
dcterms.audienceScientistsen_US
dcterms.audienceAcademicsen_US
dcterms.audienceCGIARen_US
dcterms.audienceDevelopment Practitionersen_US
dcterms.audiencePolicy Makersen_US
dcterms.bibliographicCitationMwambi, M., Bijman, J. and Galiè, A. 2021. The effect of membership in producer organizations on women's empowerment: Evidence from Kenya. Women's Studies International Forum 87:102492.en_US
dcterms.issued2021-07en_US
dcterms.languageenen_US
dcterms.licenseCC-BY-4.0en_US
dcterms.publisherElsevieren_US
dcterms.subjectwomenen_US
dcterms.subjectempowermenten_US
dcterms.subjectlivestocken_US
dcterms.subjectsmallholdersen_US
dcterms.subjectgenderen_US
dcterms.typeJournal Articleen_US

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