Agriculture and Climate Change in Kenya: Climate Chaos, Policy Dilemmas

Main author: Maina, Immaculate
Other authors: Newsham, Andrew
Okoti, Michael
Format: Monographs and Working Papers           
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description This paper analyses emerging policy discussions on climate change and agriculture in Kenya. Kenya has been ahead of many other countries in developing a national climate change strategy, and agriculture is one of the key critical sectors of interest. However, there are concerns about whether policy goals may be achieved amidst the actors’ many and diverging interests. This paper sets out to map how these debates are starting to take place in practice, and poses the following questions: what are the arguments, who is promoting them, and what are the implications for Kenya’s agricultural sector? A better understanding of the key actors, their interests and through what narratives actor-interests are mobilised is important because they will all have implications for the kinds of support farmers at the local level do or do not receive, and the extent to which their own interests are fore grounded or marginalised within the policy process. Ultimately, the policy response to climate change in the agricultural sector is one important factor which mediates local-level vulnerability.
format Monographs and Working Papers
author Maina, Immaculate
author_facet Maina, Immaculate
Newsham, Andrew
Okoti, Michael
authorStr Maina, Immaculate
author_letter Maina, Immaculate
author2 Newsham, Andrew
Okoti, Michael
author2Str Newsham, Andrew
Okoti, Michael
title Agriculture and Climate Change in Kenya: Climate Chaos, Policy Dilemmas
publisher Future Agricultures Consortium: Working Paper, no.70
publishDate 2013
url https://eprints.soas.ac.uk/18050/