Women remain underrepresented at Kenya's national agriculture research hub despite a 2010 call for the institution to address the issue, a study has found.
The study, ‘Gender concerns in agricultural institutions: a case study of Kenya Agricultural Research Institute’, was authored by three KARI staff members and published in the African Journal of Horticultural Science in December.
The authors investigated 12 KARI centres. They interviewed 290 members of staff (10 per cent), of whom 125 were female.
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