Kenya's current Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper (PRSP) perceives pove rty as inadequacy of incomes and deprivation of basic needs and rights, and lack of access to productive assets as well as social infrastructure and markets (Republic of Kenya 2001). In money terms, absolute poverty in Kenya is pegged at Kshs. 1,239 per pe rson per month in the rural areas and Kshs. 2,648 per person per month for the urban areas of the country (Republic of Kenya 1997). The 1994 Welfare Monitoring Survey (WMS) therefore categorises the poor in Kenya to include people with large families, thos e engaged in subsistence farming, and those lacking a source of income (WMS 1994). Nevertheless, people in general and the poor in particular define and experience poverty in diverse ways. In the PRSP workshops, most respondents associated poverty with dep rivations including lack of land, unemployment, inability to feed oneself and family, lack of proper housing, poor health and inability to educate children and pay medical bills (Republic of Kenya 2001).
Publication year
2003
Authors
Language
English
Keywords
agricultural development, agroforestry, farming systems, poverty, rural areas
