Abstract
Gender Analysis of Smallholder Farmers’ Adaptive Capacity to Drought in Semi-arid Kenya
Highlights
Climate change is currently a global challenge that is threatening achievement of sustainable development goals (Mutai et al, 2010)
We first analysed the influence of gender on choice of adaptation strategies by focusing on fourteen most common adaptation strategies used in the area to respond to drought
We analysed the uptake of adaption strategies by gender against some independent socio-economic factors that had the potential to influence the capacity of farmers to cope with or adapt to effects of droughts
Summary
Climate change is currently a global challenge that is threatening achievement of sustainable development goals (Mutai et al, 2010). Climate change has resulted into sharp variations in precipitation and mean air temperatures and the changes are expected to worsen in the near future (Misra, 2014). These changes have affected patterns of rainfall, sea level and flow of rivers in the world (IPCC, 2008). Agricultural productivity has not been spared as it has been severely affected by variations in rainfall caused by changing climate systems especially in the arid and semi-arid areas (Misra, 2014; Mallari, 2015). Drought is defined as a form of environmental stress caused by an abnormally long period of dry weather leading to moisture
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