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Food or Fees?: Coping Strategies of the Poor in Rural Kenya |
| Section: CULTURE / CROSSROADS |
| Author: Pat Hamilton; Photographed by Wendy Stone |
| Publication: The world & I online |
| Issue Date: 2/1/2002 |
| Size: 3,912 Words, 23,592 Characters |
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These questions were the focus of an in-depth study of seventy-four people conducted by the Association of Better Land Husbandry (ABLH), a Nairobi-based NGO, in July-October of 2000. The process yielded several insights into the causes of poverty in the region. ABLH conducted the program using self-help groups based around its two field stations in Kerugoya, Central Province, and Kakamega in Western Province. The research was financed by the Rockefeller Foundation.
Over four-fifths of the farmers were women. In part, this predominance reflected the result of male migration from rural areas in search of better life opportunities. The farmers' circumstances varied considerably. For the purpose of the survey, they kept diaries for two weeks and ranked themselves as "very poor," "poor," "...
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...r children would all receive primary and secondary education, reversing national trends for both. This would surely have beneficial implications for the national economy and profound psychological and economic impacts within families. Farmers could plan for a future in which their children could help lift them out of poverty. Currently, however, all the trends are in the opposite direction.
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