dc.contributor.author | Poulton, Colin | |
dc.contributor.author | Kanyinga, Karuti | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2013-08-06T11:50:31Z | |
dc.date.available | 2013-08-06T11:50:31Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2013 | |
dc.identifier.citation | Poulton, Colin and Kanyinga, Karuti. 2013. The Politics of Revitalising Agriculture in Kenya. Future Agricultures, Working Paper No. 059 | en |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/11295/54850 | |
dc.description.abstract | In March 2004 the Kenyan government set out its
radical Strategy for Revitalising Agriculture (SRA). Almost
a decade on, remarkably little progress has been made
on its priority areas. Beyond bureaucratic resistance to
economic reform, we explain the political roots of inertia
in the SRA case, encompassing both the political logic
of maintaining commodity chain-based state
organisations and the impossibility of achieving the
necessary collective action for radical reform within a
dysfunctional coalition government. Continuation of the
historic approach to agricultural development in Kenya
is good for regional elites but fails to deliver critical public
goods for poorer smallholder producers. We, therefore,
consider what political changes might be needed before
more radical reforms to Kenyan agricultural policy can
be implemented. | en |
dc.language.iso | en | en |
dc.publisher | University of Nairobi | en |
dc.subject | Kenya, agricultural policy, Strategy for Revitalising Agriculture, public goods, democratisation | en |
dc.title | The Politics of Revitalising Agriculture in Kenya | en |
dc.type | Working Paper | en |
local.publisher | Institute for Development Studies,University of Nairobi | en |