Commercial rabbit farming and poverty in urban and peri-urban Kenya

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cg.authorship.typesCGIAR and developing country institute
cg.contributor.affiliationIGAD Climate Prediction and Applications Centre
cg.contributor.affiliationInternational Livestock Research Institute
cg.contributor.crpLivestock
cg.contributor.donorNational Commission for Science, Technology and Innovation, Kenya
cg.coverage.countryKenya
cg.coverage.iso3166-alpha2KE
cg.coverage.regionAfrica
cg.coverage.regionEastern Africa
cg.howPublishedFormally Published
cg.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.3389/fvets.2020.00353
cg.isijournalISI Journal
cg.issn2297-1769
cg.journalFrontiers in Veterinary Science
cg.number353
cg.reviewStatusPeer Review
cg.subject.ilriANIMAL PRODUCTION
cg.subject.ilriFARMING SYSTEMS
cg.subject.ilriLIVELIHOODS
cg.volume7
dc.contributor.authorMutsami, C.
dc.contributor.authorKarl, Stephen
dc.date.accessioned2020-12-23T12:17:43Zen
dc.date.available2020-12-23T12:17:43Zen
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10568/110601
dc.titleCommercial rabbit farming and poverty in urban and peri-urban Kenyaen
dcterms.abstractResearch has shown that agricultural commercialization is an effective way of boosting farmers' welfare. Is this true for urban or peri-urban farmers? We attempt to answer this question by assessing the effects of rabbit commercialization on multidimensional poverty among urban farmers in Kenya. While previous studies have analyzed commercialization in terms of crops, small livestock such as rabbit has received little attention. Additionally, most studies use income to capture poverty without considering other deprivations such as education, health and living standards. Here, we assess the effect or rabbit commercialization on multidimensional poverty among urban and peri-urban farmers. Data from 260 respondents is used. Findings show that rabbit commercialization is associated with a decrease in multidimensional poverty among urban and peri-urban farmers. This means that livestock commercialization has a potential of improving living standards of urban poor. Policy implication of this finding is that there is need to focus on promotion of commercialization among smallholder farmers through provision of necessary infrastructure such as roads and refrigerators and institutions such credit, inputs and output markets.en
dcterms.accessRightsOpen Access
dcterms.available2020-06-19
dcterms.bibliographicCitationMutsami, C. and Karl, S. 2020. Commercial rabbit farming and poverty in urban and peri-urban Kenya. Frontiers in Veterinary Science 7:353.en
dcterms.issued2020-06-19
dcterms.languageen
dcterms.licenseCC-BY-4.0
dcterms.publisherFrontiers Media
dcterms.subjectanimal productionen
dcterms.subjectrabbitsen
dcterms.subjectpovertyen
dcterms.typeJournal Article

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