dc.contributor.author | Saranta, Moses | |
dc.contributor.author | Taji, Isindu Shivachi | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2024-07-19T13:35:52Z | |
dc.date.available | 2024-07-19T13:35:52Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2020-11-11 | |
dc.identifier.issn | 2250-3153 | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://repository.rongovarsity.ac.ke/handle/123456789/2634 | |
dc.description.abstract | The utilization of pastoral resources such as grasses,
shrubs, water and salt-licks is an aspect social capital. However,
with climatic and socio-economic changes traditional cattle
production and livelihood outcomes including social capital may
be impacted. As a result pastoralists devise mechanism to
ameliorate any negative effects of the changes. Governments
and other agencies have also intervened in the pastoral
production systems to align them to current realities. In 1991,
the Government of Kenya and the Federal Republic of Germany
introduced the Sahiwal cattle to the Isiria Maasai of Narok
County to improve cattle production. Studies on the effect of
such interventions on social capital are few and the existing ones
are narrowed to at most three aspects of social capital. Thus, this
study was formulated to investigate the association between
adoption of Sahiwal cattle and household social capital among
Isiria Maasai pastoralists. The study considered ten aspects of
social capital which adopted a cross-sectional social survey and it
utilised both quantitative and qualitative methods of data
collection and analysis. A multi-stage proportional sampling
procedure was used to select a sample of 400 households to
participate in the study. Results of the study indicated that over
three-quarters (86.6%) of the respondents had adopted Sahiwal
cattle and a majority (95.4%) had a moderate/medium level of
social capital. Age and level of formal education had an effect
on the level of social capital. Respondents scored highly on two
aspects of social capital – friendship (84.4%) and information
and communication (83.5%). Data revealed that the association
between adoption of Sahiwal cattle and household social capital
was negative, weak and not significant at the 0.05 level of
significance. Nevertheless, the association was significant for
the four aspects of social capital – solidarity, information and
communication, safety as well as empowerment and political
action. Thus, the study concluded that whereas there may not be
any association between adoptions of improved cattle and overall
household social capital, it may be possible that an association
exists with some of its aspects. | en_US |
dc.language.iso | en | en_US |
dc.publisher | International Journal of Scientific and Research Publications, | en_US |
dc.relation.ispartofseries | Volume 10;Issue 11 | |
dc.rights | Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 United States | * |
dc.rights.uri | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/us/ | * |
dc.subject | Adoption, Livelihood, Outcomes, Sahiwal | en_US |
dc.title | Improved Livestock Breeds and Household Social Capital: The Case of Sahiwal Cattle Adoption among Isiria Maasai of Narok County, Kenya | en_US |
dc.type | Article | en_US |