Working Paper

An Assessment of the Effects of Technology Transfer on Gender Roles within a Community: The Development of Tea and Coffee Production among Smallholder Farmers in Kiambu District, Central Province Kenya

“The main objective of this study was to assess the impact of the adoption of an entire package of technology on gender roles within the farming communities, with the intent of determining any imbalances that need to be addressed. In this case, the package of technology under study is that embodied in the production of two cash crops – tea and coffee, and the community under study is smallholder farmers in Kiambu District, Kenya.”