By Timothy Mburu
At a recently held workshop new findings related to gender roles and responsibilities among farmers were discussed and disclosed.
The recent changes in climate is also changing gender roles among farmers, says Marther Ngigi, who was presenting preliminary findings from her PhD thesis at a gender workshop in Nairobi, Kenya a few weeks back. The workshop was organised by the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) and the CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security (CCAFS).
Ngigi investigated the adaptive capacity for both the husband and wife (wives) in one household and their preferred climate-smart agricultural practices. She conducted this study in three different three agro-ecological regions in Kenya together with International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) and Kenya Agricultural Research Institute (KARI) The data collection involved individual- and intra-household level data, where husbands and wives were interviewed separately.
The study in addition reveals that men and women have different adaptive capacities to climate change.
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