AjwangEtAl2022-EnablingModernisationMarginalisingAlternativesKenyaAgricPolicySmallholders.pdf (1.43 MB)
Enabling modernisation, marginalising alternatives? Kenya's agricultural policy and smallholders
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posted on 2023-06-10, 03:49 authored by Frederick Ajwang, Saurabh AroraSaurabh Arora, Joanes Atela, Joel Onyango, Mohammad KyariTo address intensifying social and environmental challenges, development policy must learn from inclusions and exclusions of past discourses. We analyse Kenya's post-colonial agricultural policy discourse. Our analysis reveals a near-exclusive focus on the promotion of agricultural modernisation based on industrial farm inputs, a bureaucratic state and/or ‘the liberalised market’. It was with this thrust to modernise that smallholders (and other farmers) were generally seen as aligning. Smallholders' agency to diverge from modernisation was thus marginalised in the policy discourse. Overall then, the promotion of diverse agroecological and other farmer-led directions of development was largely missing from Kenya's policy landscape.
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Towards a rational approach to agency for building pathways out of poverty; G1926; ESRC-ECONOMIC & SOCIAL RESEARCH COUNCIL; ES/N014456/1
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Journal of International DevelopmentISSN
0954-1748Publisher
WileyExternal DOI
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1Volume
35Page range
1-18Department affiliated with
- SPRU - Science Policy Research Unit Publications
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2022-06-07First Open Access (FOA) Date
2022-06-07First Compliant Deposit (FCD) Date
2022-06-07Usage metrics
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