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Greiner, Clemens ORCID: 0000-0002-6771-373X and Mwaka, Innocent (2016). Agricultural change at the margins: adaptation and intensification in a Kenyan dryland. J. East. Afr. Stud., 10 (1). S. 130 - 150. ABINGDON: ROUTLEDGE JOURNALS, TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD. ISSN 1753-1063

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Abstract

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.

Item Type:	Journal Article
Creators:	Creators Email ORCID ORCID Put Code Greiner, Clemens UNSPECIFIED orcid.org/0000-0002-6771-373X UNSPECIFIED Mwaka, Innocent UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED
URN:	urn:nbn:de:hbz:38-287707
DOI:	10.1080/17531055.2015.1134488
Journal or Publication Title:	J. East. Afr. Stud.
Volume:	10
Number:	1
Page Range:	S. 130 - 150
Date:	2016
Publisher:	ROUTLEDGE JOURNALS, TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD
Place of Publication:	ABINGDON
ISSN:	1753-1063
Language:	English
Faculty:	Unspecified
Divisions:	Unspecified
Subjects:	no entry
Uncontrolled Keywords:	Keywords Language EAST POKOT; PASTORALISM; CATTLE; TRANSITIONS; LANDSCAPE; CONFLICT; PRESSURE; MALTHUS; LAND Multiple languages Area Studies; Social Sciences, Interdisciplinary Multiple languages
Refereed:	Yes
URI:	http://kups.ub.uni-koeln.de/id/eprint/28770