Download or read book Smallholder Agriculture in Colonial Kenya written by Anne Thurston and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Intensification of Smallholder Agriculture in Kenya written by Anne Thurston and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Colonial Crop Maize Land Appetite and Economic Subsidies in Colonial Kenya 1895 1965 written by Alex Oloo and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kenya depends on agriculture for food production. It is an industry that is currently occupied by smallholder farmers, unlike the colonial era. The smallholder farmers averagely cultivate less than one hectare of land. For the smallholder farmers, farming is a household activity implemented at the subsistence level. However, because the Kenyan economy depends mostly on agriculture, national food security is pegged on the availability of adequate maize supply to meet the food demand. This primarily historical study aims at examining the successful introduction of the food staple maize crop in Kenya, drawing selectively from an extensive published scholarly literature about crop changes and related policies that were put in place to boost maize productivity. The thesis focuses on land acquisition by European settlers in the early 1900s, the development of White Highlands, Kitale, and other significant areas where maize production made an essential impact on the food economy. The thesis concentrated on the development of the maize crop between 1895 to 1965, the period when maize became the dominant food crop in Kenya, the use of technology, and other public investments like seed company that led to the legacy of maize growing in the post-independent Kenya. The period of 1985 - 1965 is significant in understanding the introduction of white maize and transition from traditional crops like sorghum and millet to maize. It is essential for understanding why white maize is preferred in Kenya, how maize farming changed Kenya's economy to an agriculture economy and the evolution of maize politics in Kenya.

Download or read book Kenyan Agricultural Policy written by Patrick O. Alila and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book A Comparison of Smallholder Agricultural Development in Kenya and Malawi written by W. H. W. Tod and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Underdevelopment of Agriculture in Colonial Kenya written by B. D. Bowles and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page 17 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book A History of the Agricultural Society of Kenya written by Milka A. Achola and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Agricultural Land Redistribution written by Hans P. Binswanger-Mkhize and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 2009-01-01 with total page 494 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Despite 250 years of land reform all over the World, important land inequalities remain, especially in Latin America and Southern Africa.While in these countries, there is near consensus on the need for redistribution, much controversy persists around how to redistribute land peacefully and legally, often blocking progress on implementation.This book focuses on the "how" of land redistribution in order to forge greater consensus among land reform practitioners and enable them to make better choices on the mechanisms of land reform. Reviews and case studies describe and analyze the al.

Download or read book Institutionalising Rural Development in Kenya written by Patrick O. Alila and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 30 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Land and Class in Kenya written by Christopher Leo and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Rural Development in Tropical Africa written by Judith Heyer and published by Springer. This book was released on 1981-06-18 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Taxing Colonial Africa written by Leigh Gardner and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2012-10-04 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Taxation was one of the most contentious aspects of British colonial rule in Africa, shaping relationships between Africans, colonial governments, and European settlers. This is the first detailed comparative study of both taxation and public spending in British colonies in Africa.

Download or read book Food and Famine in Colonial Kenya written by James Duminy and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2022-10-19 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers a genealogical critique of how food scarcity was governed in colonial Kenya. With an approach informed by the ‘analysis of government’, the study accounts for the emergence and persistence of dominant approaches to promoting food security in Kenya and elsewhere in Africa – policies and practices that prioritize increased agricultural production as the principal means of achieving food security. Drawing on a range of archival sources, the book investigates how those tasked with governing colonial Kenya confronted food as a particular kind of problem. It emphasizes the ways in which that problem shifted in conjunction with the emergence and consolidation of the colonial state and economic relations in the territory. The book applies a novel conceptual approach to the historical study of African food systems and famine, and provides the first longitudinal and in-depth analysis of the dynamics of food scarcity and its government in Kenya.

Download or read book The Contested Lands of Laikipia written by Marie Ladekjær Gravesen and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2020-11-16 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explore the violence and conflict that lead up to the land invasions prior to Kenya's 2017 general election. The Contested Lands of Laikipia tells how, and why, land claims and ethnic categories became increasingly politicized here over the past century.

Download or read book Agricultural Development in Kenya written by and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book African Successes written by David K. Leonard and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1991-03-14 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "For the past twenty-five years Kenya has progressed while much of Africa has stagnated. Instead of the economic disasters, underdevelopment, and serious food shortages that have plagued its neighbors, Kenya has enjoyed an expanding economy and agriculture. And instead of a corrupt and incompetent public administration, Kenya has established several successful rural development programs run by public servants with integrity and professional commitment. What accounts for these Kenyan successes? In this innovative study, David Leonard illustrates the way public policy is made and implemented in Kenya by focusing on four public officials who have had a great impact on rural development. He skillfully weaves his analyses of Kenya's political, economic, and administrative systems into evocative biographical portraits of Charles Karanja, General Manager of the Kenya Tea Development Authority, Harris Mule, administrative head of Finance and Planning, Ishmael Muriithi, head of the Veterinary Department, and Simeon Nyachae, Cabinet Secretary and chief of the Civil Service. The result is a fascinating glimpse of Kenyan political life from the inside, set in the context of the historical and social forces that have shaped that country's government"--Publisher's description.

Download or read book Labor in Colonial Kenya after the Forced Labor Convention 1930 1963 written by Opolot Okia and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2019-08-23 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book advances research into the government-forced labor used widely in colonial Kenya from 1930 to 1963 after the passage of the International Labor Organization’s Forced Labour Convention. While the 1930 Convention intended to mark the suppression of forced labor practices, various exemptions meant that many coercive labor practices continued in colonial territories. Focusing on East Africa and the Kenya Colony, this book shows how the colonial administration was able to exploit the exemption clause for communal labor, thus ensuring the mobilization of African labor for infrastructure development. As an exemption, communal labor was not defined as forced labor but instead justified as a continuation of traditional African and community labor practices. Despite this ideological justification, the book shows that communal labor was indeed an intensification of coercive labor practices and one that penalized Africans for non-compliance with fines or imprisonment. The use of forced labor before and after the passage of the Convention is examined, with a focus on its use during World War II as well as in efforts to combat soil erosion in the rural African reserve areas in Kenya. The exploitation of female labor, the Mau Mau war of the 1950s, civilian protests, and the regeneration of communal labor as harambee after independence are also discussed.