Championing gender in agricultural services in Kenya
Key messages: • Champion farmers are male and female influencers recruited to support the delivery of agricultural services to fellow farmers within their communities (including seeds, advisories, and crop insurance), thereby promoting gender and social inclusion. • Providing insurance as a stand-al...
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International Food Policy Research Institute
2022
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| Acceso en línea: | https://hdl.handle.net/10568/127085 |
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| author | Bikketi, Edward Gumucio, Tatiana Cecchi, Francesco Kramer, Berber Waithaka, Lilian Waweru, Carol |
| author_browse | Bikketi, Edward Cecchi, Francesco Gumucio, Tatiana Kramer, Berber Waithaka, Lilian Waweru, Carol |
| author_facet | Bikketi, Edward Gumucio, Tatiana Cecchi, Francesco Kramer, Berber Waithaka, Lilian Waweru, Carol |
| author_sort | Bikketi, Edward |
| collection | Repository of Agricultural Research Outputs (CGSpace) |
| description | Key messages:
• Champion farmers are male and female influencers recruited to support the delivery of agricultural services to fellow farmers within their communities (including seeds, advisories, and crop insurance), thereby promoting gender and social inclusion.
• Providing insurance as a stand-alone product is too expensive to build a sustainable and cost-effective champion farmer model; there is a need to integrate the model with other services, including the provision of seeds, and to leverage government subsidies.
• Champion farmers face steep competition from other service providers in the provision of seeds, but their networks give them opportunities to tap into underserved markets, as they have connections with women-led farmer collectives.
• Female champion farmers’ socially ascribed gender roles and responsibilities related to homecare contribute to time poverty and drudgery and potentially inhibit the extent to which women can benefit from their champion role.
• It is necessary to promote a better understanding of insurance among farmers and build farmers’ trust in services and products through additional training of champion farmers, sensitization of farmers, and awareness creation. |
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| institution | CGIAR Consortium |
| language | Inglés |
| publishDate | 2022 |
| publishDateRange | 2022 |
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| spelling | CGSpace1270852025-11-06T04:39:26Z Championing gender in agricultural services in Kenya Bikketi, Edward Gumucio, Tatiana Cecchi, Francesco Kramer, Berber Waithaka, Lilian Waweru, Carol agriculture gender crop insurance gender analysis insurance men poverty poverty alleviation seeds social inclusion subsidies training women influencers Key messages: • Champion farmers are male and female influencers recruited to support the delivery of agricultural services to fellow farmers within their communities (including seeds, advisories, and crop insurance), thereby promoting gender and social inclusion. • Providing insurance as a stand-alone product is too expensive to build a sustainable and cost-effective champion farmer model; there is a need to integrate the model with other services, including the provision of seeds, and to leverage government subsidies. • Champion farmers face steep competition from other service providers in the provision of seeds, but their networks give them opportunities to tap into underserved markets, as they have connections with women-led farmer collectives. • Female champion farmers’ socially ascribed gender roles and responsibilities related to homecare contribute to time poverty and drudgery and potentially inhibit the extent to which women can benefit from their champion role. • It is necessary to promote a better understanding of insurance among farmers and build farmers’ trust in services and products through additional training of champion farmers, sensitization of farmers, and awareness creation. 2022-12-01 2023-01-13T18:29:30Z 2023-01-13T18:29:30Z Brief https://hdl.handle.net/10568/127085 en https://doi.org/10.2499/p15738coll2.134491 https://doi.org/10.2499/p15738coll2.136486 https://doi.org/10.2499/p15738coll2.134938 https://doi.org/10.2499/p15738coll2.136355 Open Access application/pdf International Food Policy Research Institute Bikketi, Edward; Gumucio, Tatiana; Cecchi, Francesco; Kramer, Berber; Waithaka, Lilian; and Waweru, Carol. 2022. Championing gender in agricultural services in Kenya. Promoting Stress-Tolerant Varieties at Scale - Kenya Project Note December 2022. Washington, DC: International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI). https://doi.org/10.2499/p15738coll2.136519. |
| spellingShingle | agriculture gender crop insurance gender analysis insurance men poverty poverty alleviation seeds social inclusion subsidies training women influencers Bikketi, Edward Gumucio, Tatiana Cecchi, Francesco Kramer, Berber Waithaka, Lilian Waweru, Carol Championing gender in agricultural services in Kenya |
| title | Championing gender in agricultural services in Kenya |
| title_full | Championing gender in agricultural services in Kenya |
| title_fullStr | Championing gender in agricultural services in Kenya |
| title_full_unstemmed | Championing gender in agricultural services in Kenya |
| title_short | Championing gender in agricultural services in Kenya |
| title_sort | championing gender in agricultural services in kenya |
| topic | agriculture gender crop insurance gender analysis insurance men poverty poverty alleviation seeds social inclusion subsidies training women influencers |
| url | https://hdl.handle.net/10568/127085 |
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