This qualitative study on knowledge, attitudes and practices (KAP) among poultry and pond fish farmers from Kisii, Nakuru and Kirinyaga counties in Kenya was conducted to establish insect for feed interventions likely to reduce the cost of feeds in these enterprises and benefit women and men equitably. Data were collected through sex and enterprise type disaggregated focus group discussions with farmers.

Poultry farming was more established than fish farming in all three counties. Women were more involved than men in poultry, and men more than women in fish, farming. For both enterprises, women did same number of chores as men except for fish in the dry season when women did more chores. For most chores, women worked longer than men. Men and women knew of many insects fed raw to chicken and fish. Men stated that insect fed chickens are bigger and women affirmed that they are tastier. For both enterprises, men mainly decided on allocation of money jointly with women, or alone. Women mainly decided on allocation of feeding resources.

Because gender roles were more clearly defined in poultry enterprises, it would be more useful to start conducting gender targeted interventions with poultry farmers. Among the interventions recommended include insect farming technologies at the homestead for women and wild insect catching technologies for women and men. Surplus insects farmed / harvested can be sold to commercial feed processors through contractual arrangements between them and the producers. Advocacy interventions to prevent economically dormant men taking over insect rearing enterprises from women once they become profitable, and time saving technologies for use by time-poor women are also recommended.

这项关于肯尼亚Kisii，Nakuru和Kirinyaga县的家禽和池塘鱼类养殖者的知识，态度和做法（KAP）的定性研究旨在建立昆虫干预饲料干预措施，可能会降低这些企业的饲料成本并使男女受益公平地。通过与农民进行的按性别和企业类型分类的焦点小组讨论收集数据。

在所有三个县中，家禽养殖业比鱼类养殖业更为成熟。在家禽业中，女性比男性参与程度更高，在鱼类，农业中，女性参与度更高。对于这两家企业来说，妇女的杂务数量与男子相同，除了在旱季妇女做更多杂务的鱼类。对于大多数杂务，女性的工作时间比男性长。男人和女人都知道许多以生吃的鸡肉和鱼类为食的昆虫。男人说用昆虫喂食的鸡更大，而女人则肯定它们更美味。对于这两家企业，男人主要决定与女人共同或单独分配金钱。妇女主要决定分配喂养资源。

由于在家禽企业中对性别角色的定义更加明确，因此开始对家禽养殖者进行针对性别的干预将更为有用。建议采取的干预措施包括妇女宅基地的昆虫种植技术和男女的野生捕虫技术。养殖/收获的多余昆虫可以通过与生产者之间的合同安排出售给商业饲料加工者。提倡采取干预措施，防止经济上处于休眠状态的男人一旦从赚钱的公司手中接管了养虫企业，并建议节省时间的技术供贫穷的妇女使用。