IDRC doctoral research award / Bourse du CRDI aux chercheurs candidats au doctorat

ThesisThesis, 2006Thesis (Ph.D), University of Toronto, 2006The table of contents for this item can be shared with the requester. The requester may then choose one chapter, up to 10% of the item, as per the Fair Dealing provision of the Canadian Copyright Ac

Using interview triads to understand the barriers to effective food security policy in Kenya: a case study application

Abstract onlyThis paper presents the results of an exploratory study on food security policy in Kenya. Key informant interviews are used to provide a ‘multiperspective’ lens through which to garner insights into Kenya’s food security policy processes and emerging resilient farming system practices. Seeking to situate the policy-making process in its ‘real-life’ institutional context, we identified three interlinked institutions (at government, research and farm levels) and interviewed individuals within each who could speak authoritatively on food policy challenges. We concentrated on Wote, a semi-arid agro-pastoral area in Makueni County, Eastern Province. From different starting points, the interviewees came to agree on the biggest challenges to the development of effective food security policy in Kenya: information, research and education. The paper further reflects on the methodology and assesses its potential efficacy in the study of hunger and its solutions, especially in the realm of knowledge integration, the democratization of research and policy-making processes and the opening up of reciprocal communication pathways amongst institutional actors

Building Food Sovereignty in Kenya: From Export to Local Agricultural Value Chains

Les auteures ont revisité le district de Maragua au Kenya et ont analysé les protestations des fermières face à l’exploitation du café en 1990. En 2016 elles ont note une transition très claire vers une agroécologie biologique caractérisée par des alliances genrées et générationnelles démarrées il y a plusieurs années par les femmes qui protestaient. Depuis elles ont imaginé le partage des sols, elles ont préservé une variété de semences qu’elles ont semées et ont ajouté certaines connaissances écologiques et des préférences culinaires locales