Mutea, Emily; Rist, Stephan; Jacobi, Johanna (2020). Applying the Theory of Access to Food Security among Smallholder Family Farmers around North-West Mount Kenya. Sustainability, 12(5), p. 1751. MDPI 10.3390/su12051751
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Access to productive resources such as land and water is fundamental for households that rely on crop and livestock production for their livelihoods. Research often assumes that agricultural production—and thus, food security—are favoured by tenure security of resources (as represented by a “bundle of property rights”). However, research has not yet elucidated how food security is influenced by additional factors, represented within a “bundle of powers”. Guided by the Theory of Access developed by Ribot and Peluso, we explore the main factors in the respective bundles of rights and powers that influence household food security around north-west Mount Kenya. We interviewed 76 households—38 food secure and 38 food insecure—who were subsampled from a previous foodsecurity survey of 380 households. Results show that household food insecurity was not exclusively the result of a lack of private property rights as many farmers had retained their property rights. Instead, a major factor preventing access to productive resources was the difficulty faced by food insecure households in accessing farm technology (i.e. hand tools and implements). Access to authority and via social relations were significantly correlated with access to technology, so improving the latter must take into account the former.
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Journal Article (Original Article) |
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Division/Institute: |
08 Faculty of Science > Institute of Geography > Geographies of Sustainability > Unit Land Systems and Sustainable Land Management (LS-SLM) 08 Faculty of Science > Institute of Geography > Geographies of Sustainability 08 Faculty of Science > Institute of Geography 10 Strategic Research Centers > Centre for Development and Environment (CDE) |
UniBE Contributor: |
Mutea, Emily Ngutah, Rist, Stephan, Jacobi, Johanna |
ISSN: |
2071-1050 |
Publisher: |
MDPI |
Projects: |
[437] Towards food sustainability Official URL
[805] Sustainability Governance |
Language: |
English |
Submitter: |
Evi Nina Rothenbühler |
Date Deposited: |
21 Apr 2020 07:49 |
Last Modified: |
05 Dec 2022 15:37 |
Publisher DOI: |
10.3390/su12051751 |
Uncontrolled Keywords: |
access; food security; smallholders; Kenya; Mount Kenya; farm technology; theory of access |
BORIS DOI: |
10.7892/boris.141468 |
URI: |
https://boris.unibe.ch/id/eprint/141468 |
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