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Research findings: Models of commercial agriculture in Kenya
(Institute for Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies, University of the Western Cape, 2016)
Kenya provides a compelling case study of market driven agricultural evolution over the past century. Agriculture played a singular role in the development of the modern Kenyan economy, and while Kenyan agriculture was ...
Land and agricultural commercialisation in Meru County, Kenya: evidence from three models
(Taylor & Francis, 2017)
What are the relative pros and cons of different pathways of agricultural commercialisation in Africa? This paper examines aspects of three commercial farming cases, each of which represents one of the three most dominant ...
Agricultural commercialisation in Meru County, Kenya: What are the policy implications?
(Institute for Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies, University of the Western Cape, 2016)
Kenya’s highlands have a long history of agricultural commercialisation, from colonial times to the present. Policies from 1895 to the 1930s were aimed primarily at developing European settler agriculture, which formed the ...
Research findings: Models of commercial agriculture in Kenya
(Institute for Poverty Land and Agrarian Studies (PLAAS), 2016)
Kenya provides a compelling case study of market driven agricultural evolution over the past century. Agriculture played a singular role in the development of the modern Kenyan economy, and while Kenyan agriculture was ...
Agricultural commercialisation in Meru County, Kenya: What are the policy implications?
(Institute for Poverty Land and Agrarian Studies (PLAAS), 2016)
Our study aimed to engage these debates. The study was carried out in Kenya’s Meru County and examined three agricultural farming models: outgrowers, medium-scale commercial farms and a plantation. This was part of the ...
Who gets the human appropriation of net primary production?: Biomass distribution & the ‘sugar economy’ in the Tana Delta, Kenya
(Institute for Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies, University of the Western Cape, 2012)
In this article we focus on the connection between purchases of land and the emerging ‘biomass-economy’, analysing
biomass distribution in a region targeted for land-grabbing in order to understand the process from both ...
Conservation and ecotourism on privatised land in the Mara, Kenya: The case of conservancy land leases
(Institute for Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies, University of the Western Cape, 2012)
This paper investigates private sector investment in conservation and ecotourism through conservancy land leases in
the Mara region of Kenya. In a recent and growing tourism development, groups of Maasai landowners are ...
The voices of women and smallholder farmers in Kenya’s Lamu Corridor
(UWC PLAAS, 2023)
The Lamu Corridor Project in Kenya promises to develop infrastructure to connect a vast area covering Northern Kenya, South Sudan, and Southern Ethiopia with global markets. Driven mainly by oil and mineral transport ...