"7296","15","archive","30",,,"disk0/00/00/72/96","2013-12-24 04:02:11","2013-12-24 04:02:11","2013-12-24 04:02:11","conference_item",,,"show","Library-ICRISAT@cgiar.org",,,"","","","","","","","","","",,,,"Wanyama","R N","","","","","","","Orr","A","","","","",,,,,"","",,,,,"","","Egerton University(Egerton)","Kenya","A Gendered Analysis of the Effect of Peanut Value Addition on 
Household Income in Rongo and Ndhiwa Districts of Kenya","pub","s1.3","","","public",,"paper",,,"We thank the Peanut Collaborative Research Support Program (Peanut CRSP) funded by the 
United States Agency for International Development (USAID), under cooperative agreement 
USAID ECG-A-00-07-00001-00 for its financial support in conducting this research. We also 
thank ICRISAT for allowing us to carry out this research under its umbrella. Further gratitude 
goes to the Ministry of Agriculture staff in Rongo and Ndhiwa districts that assisted in data 
collection during the survey exercise. 
","Agriculture constitutes a significant amount of the Kenya’s Gross Domestic Product (GDP). 
However, a major characteristic of Kenyan agriculture is the predominance of primary 
production with a high concentration of women in the sector. Peanut production for instance 
is widespread in western Kenya under rural crop production system; serving as a cover, 
subsistence and commercial crop. As a commercial crop, peanut has the potential of 
generating income for rural households and thus help in reducing poverty and improving 
livelihoods. Moreover, higher incomes can be obtained through value addition activities. 
Despite the known benefits from value addition, farmers produce and market peanuts with 
little or no processing. Using survey data from 310 randomly selected peanut producers from 
two divisions; Ndhiwa and Rongo; a Propensity Score Method (PSM) was used to determine 
the gendered effect of peanut value addition on household income. From the results, farmers 
were found to undertake only one form of value addition, shelling. Although they appreciated 
the higher profitability associated with other forms of value addition like processing, 
inadequate capital to purchase processing equipment was a major constraint. The PSM results 
suggest that value addition raises household per capita income by Kshs.88 per day. Male 
headed households recorded higher levels of income compared to female headed households. 
This indicates that potential exists in peanut value addition as a possibility to raise farmers’ 
household incomes. However, a diversity of value adding options should be promoted for 
adoption by farmers to sustainably improve peanut farmers’ livelihoods.","2013","published",,,,,,,"1-17",,"4th International Conference of the African Association of Agricultural Economists","Hammamet Tunisia","22-25 September  2013","conference",,,,,,"TRUE",,,,,,,,"",,"http://scholar.google.co.in/scholar?as_q=%22+A+Gendered+Analysis+of+the+Effect+of+Peanut+Value+Addition+on++Household+Income+in+Rongo+and+Ndhiwa+Districts+of+Kenya%22+&as_epq=&as_oq=&as_eq=&as_occt=title&as_sauthors=&as_publication=&as_ylo=&as_yhi=&btnG=&","pub",,"United States Agency for International Development","Peanut Collaborative Research Support Program (Peanut CRSP)",,,,,,"",,,,,,,"",,,,,"",,,,,"","",,,,,"","",,,,,
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