The Socioeconomic Impact of the African Market Women Trade in Rural Kenya
The Socioeconomic Impact of the African Market Women Trade in Rural Kenya
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非洲市场妇女贸易对肯尼亚农村地区的社会经济影响
DOI：
10.1177/002193479202300110
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发表时间：
1992
影响因子：
1.1
通讯作者：
Kamuti Kiteme
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作者：
Kamuti Kiteme
本研究在妇女在全球社会中的作用的背景下，审查了肯尼亚农村市场女商人对国家发展和生计的社会经济贡献。在肯尼亚，多方面的女性角色往往重叠，但她们始终是城市居民和农村农民维持生活不可或缺的服务。过去40年来，农村市场女商人积极参与经济活动一直是肯尼亚社会经济生活和发展的一个组成部分，但研究文献中基本上没有记载。在此期间，人口增长了五倍，从1947年的430万增加到1988年估计的2000万（肯尼亚，1970年，1981年;联合王国，1946年，1949年）。农业粮食生产未能跟上人口的急剧增长，非洲平均每年增长2.7%（Ayari，1983年），肯尼亚接近4%，是世界上增长率最高的国家（肯尼亚，1981年）。1970年至1980年，传统的农业自给自足程度迅速下降。"到1980年，人均粮食产量每年下降15%。非洲日益恶化的粮食状况威胁着非洲国家的生存，因为农业为非洲大多数人民提供了生计。非洲的粮食危机是世界上最大的经济危机，
This study examines the socioeconomic contributions of Kenya's rural market women traders to national development and livelihood, in the context of the role of women in global society. In Kenya, multifaceted female roles often overlap -but they always constitute indispensable services in the sustenance of life among both urban dwellers and peasants in the countryside. The active economic participation of rural market women traders has been an integral part of Kenyan socioeconomic life and development over the past 40 years, largely undocumented in research literature. During this time, population has increased fivefoldfrom 4.3 million in 1947 to an estimated 20 million in 1988 (Kenya, 1970, 1981; United Kingdom, 1946, 1949). Agricultural food production has failed to keep pace with the dramatic growth of population, which averages 2.7% per year for Africa (Ayari, 1983) and close to 4% for Kenya the highest growth rate in the world (Kenya, 1981). Between 1970 and 1980, the decrease in traditional agricultural self-sufficiency rapidly accelerated. "The decline in per capita food production had reached 15% per year by 1980. Africa's deteriorating food situation threatens the very survival of African nations, because agriculture provides the livelihood of most of the people in Africa. The food crisis in Africa is the world's greatest economic