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Agricultural change at the margins: adaptation and intensification in a Kenyan dryland

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  • Clemens Greiner
  • Innocent Mwaka

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Land-use and livelihood patterns among Eastern African pastoralists have undergone dramatic change in recent decades. The dynamics in East Pokot effectively illustrate these changes. We focus on the spread and intensification of honey production and crop cultivation, describing the patterns of adaptation and diffusion and the current techniques of production. These processes must be understood as dynamics of agricultural intensification, and not as forms of diversification, because current transformations in pastoral communities go beyond temporal strategies of risk avoidance. In the case of East Pokot, intensification is related to population growth, albeit not in the linear manner proposed by Boserup. Rather, this relation is mediated by variables that include markets, labour, technology and the micro-conditions of the agro-ecological environment.

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  • Clemens Greiner & Innocent Mwaka, 2016. "Agricultural change at the margins: adaptation and intensification in a Kenyan dryland," Journal of Eastern African Studies, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 10(1), pages 130-149, January.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:rjeaxx:v:10:y:2016:i:1:p:130-149
    DOI: 10.1080/17531055.2015.1134488
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    1. Rebecca Kariuki & Simon Willcock & Rob Marchant, 2018. "Rangeland Livelihood Strategies under Varying Climate Regimes: Model Insights from Southern Kenya," Land, MDPI, vol. 7(2), pages 1-22, April.
    2. Lenyeletse V. Basupi & Claire H. Quinn & Andrew J. Dougill, 2017. "Pastoralism and Land Tenure Transformation in Sub-Saharan Africa: Conflicting Policies and Priorities in Ngamiland, Botswana," Land, MDPI, vol. 6(4), pages 1-17, December.
    3. Knutsson, Per & Mureithi, Stephen & Wredle, Ewa & Nyberg, Gert, 2021. "Perspectives on enclosures in pastoralist drylands: From contradictory evidence to the formulation of innovative land management strategies," World Development Perspectives, Elsevier, vol. 23(C).
    4. Annemiek Pas, 2018. "Governing Grazing and Mobility in the Samburu Lowlands, Kenya," Land, MDPI, vol. 7(2), pages 1-24, March.

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