Who Wants to Farm? Answers Depend on How You Ask: A Case Study on Youth Aspirations in Kenya

LaRue, Katie; Daum, Thomas; Mausch, Kai; Harris, D. C.

doi:10.1057/s41287-020-00352-2

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“…A study from Kenya reports 65% of the rural youth opted for having their own business rather than agriculture as their preferred livelihood option. However, LaRue et al (2021) concluded that artificially forcing youth to choose between alternative livelihood options may disguise nuanced aspirations as open ended questions revealed that most youth envision a mixed livelihood. Therefore, the continued importance and sustainability of the agricultural sector will rely on qualified and competent youth who can involve themselves in farming.…”

Section: Aging Farming Population Urban Migration and Agriculturementioning

confidence: 99%

Understanding the Aspirations of Farming Communities in Developing Countries: A Systematic Review of the Literature

Nandi

Nedumaran

2021

Eur J Dev Res

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This study surveys the panorama of research on the importance of aspirations of farming communities, identifies research gaps and prospects for future research. The analysis of 22 studies identified from 419 research articles sheds light on the relationships between aspirations, agriculture, women’s empowerment, poverty, and rural youth. Aspirations of the rural poor play a significant role in shaping their activities and investments. Furthermore, the poor and those who are exposed to natural disasters are more likely suffering from aspiration failure and their resilience needs to be built. Specifically, women’s empowerment could be supported through raising aspirations. In addition, intergenerational aspirations and corresponding investment plans in agriculture are in absolute contrast and parental desires and their children’s aspirations do not align. Overall, development program-specific research is needed to determine policies and programs that successfully and cost-effectively raise the rural poor's aspirations and thereby improve livelihoods in developing countries.

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Section: Aging Farming Population Urban Migration and Agriculturementioning

confidence: 99%

Understanding the Aspirations of Farming Communities in Developing Countries: A Systematic Review of the Literature

Nandi

Nedumaran

2021

Eur J Dev Res

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“…Our study also reveals that intrahousehold decisionmaking and labor dynamics vary with marital status and male absence associated with off-farm employment and outmigration. These findings contribute to a growing awareness that multiple social dimensions intersect with gender to shape men's and women's interest in, contribution to, and benefit from agricultural innovations (Carr and Thompson 2014), including age and position in household (Crossland et al 2021, LaRue et al 2021, wealth (Shibata et al 2020), and kinship structures (Meijer et al 2015).…”

Section: Changes In the Wider Social Context Of On-farm Restorationmentioning

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Onto the Farm, into the Home: How Intrahousehold Gender Dynamics Shape Land Restoration in Eastern Kenya

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While attention has been paid largely to forest restoration, meeting global land restoration pledges will require scalingup restoration of ecosystem services on agricultural land. This paper contributes to the literature on restoration practice and agricultural technology adoption, by shifting the focus onto the farm and considering the role of intrahousehold dynamics in the uptake of farmland restoration practices. We examine the intrahousehold decisions and gender relations surrounding the trial of two on-farm restoration practices: tree planting and planting basins; with over 2,500 farmers in the eastern drylands of Kenya. Combining results from household surveys, interviews and focus group discussions, our findings reveal that decisions over the uptake of restoration practices, although usually initiated by women who attend agricultural workshops, are often discussed between husband and wife and that multiple social dimensions intersect to shape men's and women's interest in, contribution to, and benefit from different practices. Furthermore, our study demonstrates that these intrahousehold relations are, in turn, shaped by women's participation in innovation processes and broader societal changes, particularly the outmigration of rural men. Based on these insights, we offer recommendations for improving the dissemination and uptake of on-farm restoration practices in eastern Kenya and achieving more inclusive and gender-equitable outcomes.

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“…The ratio of male to female household heads was almost identical in both groups (at 4:1) (Table 1). Given the emphasis in the migration literature on youth migration, the similarity in the age structure of migrant and non-migrant household heads is noteworthy [50][51][52]. In total, 40% of migrant household heads and 45% of non-migrant household heads were under the age of 35.…”

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Migration, Rural–Urban Connectivity, and Food Remittances in Kenya

2021

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This paper draws on data from a representative city-wide household food security survey of Nairobi conducted in 2017 to examine the importance of food remitting to households in contemporary Nairobi. The first section of the paper provides an overview of the urbanization and rapid growth of Nairobi, which has led to growing socio-economic inequality, precarious livelihoods for the majority, and growing food insecurity, as context for the more detailed empirical analysis of food security and food remittances that follows. It is followed by a description of the survey methodology and sections analyzing the differences between migrant and non-migrant households in Nairobi. Attention then turns to the phenomenon of food remitting, showing that over 50% of surveyed households in the city had received food remittances in the previous year. The paper then uses multivariate logistic regression to identify the relationship between Nairobi household characteristics and the probability of receiving food remittances from rural areas. The findings suggest that there are exceptions to the standard migration and poverty-driven explanatory model of the drivers of rural–urban food remitting and that greater attention should be paid to other motivations for maintaining rural–urban connectivity in Africa.

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Who Wants to Farm? Answers Depend on How You Ask: A Case Study on Youth Aspirations in Kenya

Cited by 32 publications

References 49 publications

Understanding the Aspirations of Farming Communities in Developing Countries: A Systematic Review of the Literature

Understanding the Aspirations of Farming Communities in Developing Countries: A Systematic Review of the Literature

Onto the Farm, into the Home: How Intrahousehold Gender Dynamics Shape Land Restoration in Eastern Kenya

Migration, Rural–Urban Connectivity, and Food Remittances in Kenya

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