NDLI: Gendered Access to and Utilization of Land by Food Producers in Urban Kenya

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Author	Simiyu, Robert Romborah
Copyright Year	2013
Abstract	This paper explores gendered patterns of access to and utilization of land by urban farmers in Eldoret (Kenya). It shows that the urban farmers established entitlement over farming spaces mainly through purchase, social connections, and informal use of land around their dwellings. Owing partly to social norms and cultural practices, and partly to their better economic status, it was mostly the men who had greater entitlement to farming spaces in male-headed households; but female household heads also accessed land in their own right, although they accessed land to a limited extent and their holdings were generally smaller than men’s. However, despite high incidences of non-ownership of land among them, married women seemed to enjoy considerable access and use rights over household land for urban farming, but such rights were more limited for other land uses such as housing. Female household heads enjoyed greater control (compared to married women) over the use of household land holdings for whatever uses.
Starting Page	325
Ending Page	342
Page Count	18
File Format	PDF
ISSN	10153802
Journal	Urban Forum
Volume Number	24
Issue Number	3
e-ISSN	18746330
Language	English
Publisher	Springer Netherlands
Publisher Date	2013-01-23
Publisher Place	Dordrecht
Access Restriction	One Nation One Subscription (ONOS)
Subject Keyword	Urban agriculture Land access Livelihood assets Gender Eldoret Human Geography Landscape/Regional and Urban Planning Population Economics Political Science Sociology
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Geography, Planning and Development Urban Studies

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