Pastoral Commercialisation:

Dietz, Ton; Nunow, Abdirizak Arale; Roba, Adano Wario; Zaal, Fred

doi:10.2307/j.ctt18fs6xv.12

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“…milking and dairy processing) in West Africa [103]. In a Kenyan case study on pastoralists, Dietz et al [188] found that women process, market and decide on quantity of meat produced and sold. Despite the importance of energy in IFS enterprises, which require energy for thermal use, lighting and mechanical application, as well as for mobility, and the strong presence of women in this sector, the gender-empowerment-energy nexus has remained unexplored.…”

Section: Women's Enterprises In the Ifs: An Energy Intensive Sectormentioning

confidence: 99%

Fuelling women's empowerment? An exploration of the linkages between gender, entrepreneurship and access to energy in the informal food sector

Groot

Mohlakoana

Knox

et al. 2017

Energy Research & Social Science

101

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A B S T R A C TThis interdisciplinary review paper explores linkages between access to energy, women's empowerment and entrepreneurship. This will be discussed in the context of the informal food sector. Despite expectations that access to energy for productive uses empowers women by enabling them to generate an income, women in developing countries face a range of barriers when establishing and operating enterprises, including access to energy. The literature reviewed in this paper suggests that, although improved access to energy for women in the informal food sector may create a range of benefits for women, the empirical evidence base upon which such claims are made is limited. Access to a range of energy services suitable to their enterprise would provide women with building blocks to operate their enterprise, alleviate restrictions on growth, increase their sustainability, and provide them with increased control over enterprise operation. These may help to create an enabling environment for empowerment, rather than directly contributing to it. Consideration of the gendered dynamics and logics of entrepreneurship in the design of development interventions, in particular with regard to motivations for operating an enterprise, spatial distribution of enterprises, growth strategies and risk behaviour, may lead to more sustainable and empowered enterprises in the long-term.

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Section: Women's Enterprises In the Ifs: An Energy Intensive Sectormentioning

confidence: 99%

Fuelling women's empowerment? An exploration of the linkages between gender, entrepreneurship and access to energy in the informal food sector

Groot

Mohlakoana

Knox

et al. 2017

Energy Research & Social Science

101

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“…As such, integration into the market forces the poor to incur greater risk than they would under a system of subsistence only production. For example, producing milk for home consumption requires fewer labour inputs than producing steers for slaughter (Dietz et al 2001) but is similarly subject to external shocks, such as drought (McPeak 2004).…”

Section: New Modes Of Scholarship On Pastoralismmentioning

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Pastoralist societies in flux: A conceptual framework analysis of herding and land use among the Mukugodo Maasai of Kenya

Hauck

Rubenstein

2017

Pastoralism

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Pastoral livelihoods are evolving rapidly. The emergence of globalized markets and the integration of globalized production in developing countries have forced many pastoralists, along with the rest of the world's consumers, to shift their economic strategies of production to accommodate these evolving markets. The objective of this paper is to illustrate the relationship between globalization and apparent transformations in pastoralist behaviour in recent years. We specifically focus on the links among climate, land use, and herding in rural northern Kenya. To do this, we use a novel conceptual framework that incorporates both traditional interactions between pastoral ecology and resource generation and modern opportunities by linking pastoral families via their pastoral production and other economic activities to the cash economy, modern diets and nutritional status (health), and public and private assistance and programmes (such as food aid).

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“…Dietz et al . have also shown how pastoral communities pool resources to keep up with market flows (2001).…”

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Cooperation in the midst of violence: land deals and cattle raids in Narok and Laikipia, Kenya

Gravesen¹,

Kioko²

2019

Africa

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What drives the formation of ties and networks in ethnically hybrid spaces despite the occurrence of conflict? We approach this question by examining the actors involved, the institutions affected, and the economic and environmental contexts surrounding such tendencies. This study explores socially thick arrangements between Maasai and Kikuyu in Narok and their role in the non-violent use of formerly contested lands. In Laikipia, we examine how young Samburu and Kikuyu cooperate in a dangerous yet economically beneficial network involving cattle-rustling ventures. We revisit the history of land settlement in Kenya's Rift Valley, particularly in the study areas of Narok and Laikipia, and show how access and settlement rights to land are negotiated peacefully, encouraging ethnic assimilation and cooperative social and economic relations. Based on this context and the exploration of our case studies, we argue that the formation of alliances in multi-ethnic settings tends to override other identities when mutual benefits drive such associations.

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Pastoral Commercialisation:

Cited by 3 publications

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Fuelling women's empowerment? An exploration of the linkages between gender, entrepreneurship and access to energy in the informal food sector

Fuelling women's empowerment? An exploration of the linkages between gender, entrepreneurship and access to energy in the informal food sector

Pastoralist societies in flux: A conceptual framework analysis of herding and land use among the Mukugodo Maasai of Kenya

Cooperation in the midst of violence: land deals and cattle raids in Narok and Laikipia, Kenya

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