Characterization of enclosure management regimes and factors influencing their choice among agropastoralists in North-Western Kenya

Pastoralism

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Table 3 Factors influencing the choice of enclosure management regimes in Chepareria

Variables	Grazing and cultivation (N = 72)	Grazing, cultivation and contractual grazing (N = 16)	Grazing, Cultivation and fodder/grass seed production (N = 6)	Cultivation and grazing (N = 26)	Mean	Pearson correlation	Significance (two-tailed)
Number of livestock owned	7.43	9.43	15.00	6.48	7.85	0.209	0.024*
Enclosure acreage (ha)	4.99	7.59	7.08	3.02	5.01	0.147	0.109
Distance to market (km)	9.56	10.22	6.50	8.19	9.19	−0.11	0.22
Household income (US$)	899.55	1,145.33	1,808.64	1,214.90	1,046.10	0.214	0.019*
Agroecological zone						−0.348	0.000**
Land tenure						−0.234	0.010**
Age of household head						0.064	0.486
Education level of the household head						0.068	0.461

Exchange rate as of 31 December 2013 was 1US$ = 86.40 Kenyan shillings. *Correlation is significant at the 0.05 level (two-tailed). **Correlation is significant at the 0.01 level (two-tailed)