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1 January 2001
Published by: IDS
From tentative beginnings in the late 1980s, Participatory Rural Appraisal (PRA) has spread through Kenya 'like a bushfire'. In response to growing demand for 'doing participation', PRA has been popularised and marketised to such an extent that, as one Kenyan practitioner put it, 'everyone is doing something and calling it PRA'.
1 January 2001
Published by: IDS
The paper is a case study of the way that World Neighbors used PRA in a process of community development in one sublocation in Kenya.
1 January 2001
Modern agricultural biotechnology has profound implications for global and local agricultural and food systems, and for the livelihoods of farmers in the developed and developing worlds. The actual consequences will depend on the pathways along which the technology is developed and applied in practice.
1 January 1999
Published by: IDS
The collective efficiency model contends that joint action is essential for coping with new challenges. This paper discusses how enterprises in the Lake Victoria fish cluster operate, interact and address common challenges facing the industry. It suggests that the lack of effective institutions and the existing power relations explain the inability of the cluster to respond effectively to recent crises.
1 January 1999
Published by: IDS
This paper shows that Kenya's leading hotels source 95% of their furniture from local manufacturers. And it shows why and how the buyers, that is the hotels and their designers, helped these manufacturers to produce customised furniture to international quality requirements.
1 January 1999
1 January 1996
Published by: IDS