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Greiner, Clemens ORCID: 0000-0002-6771-373X, Alvarez, Miguel and Becker, Mathias (2013). From Cattle to Corn: Attributes of Emerging Farming Systems of Former Pastoral Nomads in East Pokot, Kenya. Soc. Nat. Resour., 26 (12). S. 1478 - 1491. PHILADELPHIA: TAYLOR & FRANCIS INC. ISSN 1521-0723

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Abstract

Crop cultivation under rain-fed conditions is a recent innovation among the formerly pastoral-nomadic Pokot in north-central Kenya. We have examined the socioecological dynamics of land-use change from an interdisciplinary perspective. The patterns of transition to agropastoralism are closely related to both the biogeophysical attributes of the area and the economic characteristics of the households. While the use of advanced agronomic practices in the highlands is associated with annual maize grain yields of >2Mg ha(-1), unfavorable climatic and edaphic conditions, as well as the limited agronomic knowledge of the newcomer farmers in the lowland and mid-hill zones, make field crop production there an opportunistic, spatially scattered, and rather erratic land-use strategy. The accelerated transition to crop cultivation and the spatiotemporal differences in sedentarization between zones contribute to a fragmentation and shortage of land, which results in growing interhousehold inequalities and increasing conflicts within Pokot society.

Item Type:	Journal Article
Creators:	Creators Email ORCID ORCID Put Code Greiner, Clemens UNSPECIFIED orcid.org/0000-0002-6771-373X UNSPECIFIED Alvarez, Miguel UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED Becker, Mathias UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED
URN:	urn:nbn:de:hbz:38-470923
DOI:	10.1080/08941920.2013.791901
Journal or Publication Title:	Soc. Nat. Resour.
Volume:	26
Number:	12
Page Range:	S. 1478 - 1491
Date:	2013
Publisher:	TAYLOR & FRANCIS INC
Place of Publication:	PHILADELPHIA
ISSN:	1521-0723
Language:	English
Faculty:	Unspecified
Divisions:	Unspecified
Subjects:	no entry
Uncontrolled Keywords:	Keywords Language SOCIAL-ECOLOGICAL SYSTEMS; SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA; NORTHERN KENYA; LAND; AGRICULTURE; CULTIVATION; TRANSITIONS Multiple languages Development Studies; Environmental Studies; Regional & Urban Planning; Sociology Multiple languages
URI:	http://kups.ub.uni-koeln.de/id/eprint/47092