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Environmental Change and Maize Innovation in Kenya: Exploring Pathways in and out of Maize
Brooks S., Thompson J., Odame H., Kibaara B., Nderitu S., Karin F. and Millstone, E. - 01-Jan-09
ISBN 978 1 85864 903 X
67 pages
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STEPS Working Paper
ISBN 978 1 85864 903 X
67 pages
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STEPS Working Paper
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This paper summarises findings of the STEPS Environmental Change and
Maize Innovation in Kenya project. Maize is an important staple crop in Kenya,
socially, politically and economically. This project has taken maize as a
window through which to explore differential responses to the combined and
inter-related effects of climate change, market uncertainties and land use
changes over time. It has traced innovations and responses of various actors
- public agricultural research institutions, donors, development agencies,
private companies and farmers. At issue is the way in which actors in different
institutional, geographic and social locations understand and frame
resilience - and how these framing assumptions shape agendas and steer
solutions and resources in certain directions and not others.
Maize Innovation in Kenya project. Maize is an important staple crop in Kenya,
socially, politically and economically. This project has taken maize as a
window through which to explore differential responses to the combined and
inter-related effects of climate change, market uncertainties and land use
changes over time. It has traced innovations and responses of various actors
- public agricultural research institutions, donors, development agencies,
private companies and farmers. At issue is the way in which actors in different
institutional, geographic and social locations understand and frame
resilience - and how these framing assumptions shape agendas and steer
solutions and resources in certain directions and not others.