About the Authors

Kennedy O. Ogolla

Roles Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

kokothogola2008@gmail.com

Affiliation Biotechnology Research Institute, The Kenya Agricultural Livestock Research Organization, Kikuyu, Kenya

Judith K. Chemuliti

Contributed equally to this work with: Judith K. Chemuliti, Mariah Ngutu, Isaac K. Nyamongo, Salome A. Bukachi

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision

Affiliation Biotechnology Research Institute, The Kenya Agricultural Livestock Research Organization, Kikuyu, Kenya

Mariah Ngutu

Contributed equally to this work with: Judith K. Chemuliti, Mariah Ngutu, Isaac K. Nyamongo, Salome A. Bukachi

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Anthropology, Gender and African Studies, University of Nairobi, Nairobi, Kenya

Winnie W. Kimani

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

‡ WWK and DNA also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation Biotechnology Research Institute, The Kenya Agricultural Livestock Research Organization, Kikuyu, Kenya

Douglas N. Anyona

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Writing – review & editing

‡ WWK and DNA also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation Department of Anthropology, Gender and African Studies, University of Nairobi, Nairobi, Kenya

Isaac K. Nyamongo

Contributed equally to this work with: Judith K. Chemuliti, Mariah Ngutu, Isaac K. Nyamongo, Salome A. Bukachi

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision

Affiliation The Co-operative University of Kenya, Nairobi, Kenya

Salome A. Bukachi

Contributed equally to this work with: Judith K. Chemuliti, Mariah Ngutu, Isaac K. Nyamongo, Salome A. Bukachi

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision

Affiliation Department of Anthropology, Gender and African Studies, University of Nairobi, Nairobi, Kenya

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.