Gender, rights and participation in the Kenya cut flower industry

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dc.contributor.authorDolan, C.en
dc.contributor.authorOpondo, M.en
dc.contributor.authorSmith, S.en
dc.contributor.departmentSustainable Agriculture and Natural Resource Management (SANREM) Knowledgebaseen
dc.coverage.spatialKenyaen
dc.coverage.spatialAfricaen
dc.date.accessioned2016-04-19T19:31:37Zen
dc.date.available2016-04-19T19:31:37Zen
dc.date.issued2004en
dc.descriptionMetadata only recorden
dc.description.abstractThis empirical study of gender in value chains examines women and their employment in the growing fresh cut flower industry in Kenya. The study examines how recent changes in codes for labor standards have improved the working situation for women employed in the industry of fresh cut flowers, but also concludes that more needs to be done to reduce sexual harassment and add job security for women who become pregnant. The study also shows the potentially negative impact of top-down mandated codes for production standards. Specifically, when codes do not fit the working conditions, the cost of implementation is not absorbed by the producer but is rather passed onto the workers, effectively working against the type of ideals such codes attempt to create. The research advocates a participatory code-making process to assure that the needs of the women workers are best met by new standards.en
dc.format.mimetypetext/plainen
dc.identifier3474en
dc.identifier.isbn0 85954 551 2en
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10919/67585en
dc.language.isoen_USen
dc.publisherKent, UK: Natural Resources Instituteen
dc.relation.urihttp://www.nri.org/projects/NRET/kenyareportfinal2.pdfen
dc.rightsIn Copyrighten
dc.rights.urihttp://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/en
dc.subjectGlobalizationen
dc.subjectMarketing and tradeen
dc.subjectWorld marketsen
dc.subjectWomenen
dc.subjectInternational tradeen
dc.subjectMarketsen
dc.subjectGenderen
dc.subjectTrade policyen
dc.subjectExportsen
dc.subjectLabor codesen
dc.subjectValue chainsen
dc.subjectCommodity chain analysisen
dc.subjectLaboren
dc.subjectWomen's employmenten
dc.subjectFarm/Enterprise Scale Field Scaleen
dc.titleGender, rights and participation in the Kenya cut flower industryen
dc.typeAbstracten
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