author: Dumas, S. E., Maranga, A., Mbullo, P., Collins, S., Wekesa, P., Onono, M., & Young, S. L. year: 2018 title: "“Men are in front at eating time, but not when it comes to rearing the chicken”: Unpacking the gendered benefits and costs of livestock ownership in kenya" publisher: Food and Nutrition Bulletin uri: https://doi.org/10.1177/0379572117737428 pubtype: article discipline: health country: Kenya period: 2013-2016 maxlength: 12 targeting: explicit group: female smallholders data: interviews design: qualitative method: focus group discussion, pile sorts, phito-elicitation interviews sample: 18 unit: individual representativeness: local causal: 0 # 0 correlation / 1 causal theory: limitations: observation: - intervention: direct transfer (livestock) institutional: 0 structural: 0 agency: 1 inequality: gender type: 1 # 0 vertical / 1 horizontal indicator: 0 # 0 absolute / 1 relative measures: hours worked findings: increased households' financial security, social benefits, human time and labor savings; some negative time and labor impacts for women; benefits mostly impactful in longer-term household resilience not short-term benefits; remaining restrictions on female livestock ownership rights, control over income channels: livestock draft power performing traditionally female physically demanding tasks; livestock care (time and labour) mostly borne by women direction: 1 # -1 neg / 0 none / 1 pos significance: # 0 nsg / 1 msg / 2 sg notes: annotation: | A qualitative study on the effects of providing direct transfers in livestock to female smallholders in Kenya, on hours worked, households' resilience and economic and social empowerment of women. It finds that providing households with additional livestock