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Research article - Peer-reviewed, 2021

Saving and borrowing behaviour among agropastoralists in West Pokot County, Kenya

Bostedt, Goran; Mukoya, Lonah; Muricho, Deborah; Nyberg, Gert

Abstract

Financial inclusion is an important development impetus, where knowledge of saving and borrowing behaviour provides valuable insights. This study focuses on access to and use of financial services among agropastoralists in rural Kenya, using survey-based household data from 2007 and 2017. Surveys show that households with savings increased from about 57% to 71%-coinciding with increased access to financial training and growing use of informal group-based savings organizations. Share of households that had access to credit also increased during this period, from about 26% to 54%. Support to group-based savings organizations can stimulate financial inclusion among agropastoralists.

Keywords

credit access; Kenya; pastoralism; saving; West Pokot

Published in

Journal of International Development
2021, volume: 33, number: 6, pages: 1043-1062
Publisher: WILEY

Authors' information

Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Department of Forest Economics
Umeå University
Luleå University of Technology
Mukoya, Lonah
Vi Agroforestry
Muricho, Deborah
University of Nairobi
Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Department of Forest Ecology and Management

Sustainable Development Goals

SDG8 Decent work and economic growth

UKÄ Subject classification

Economics

Publication Identifiers

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1002/jid.3560

URI (permanent link to this page)

https://res.slu.se/id/publ/112549