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Infrastructure Sabotage as Future‐Making: The Material and Immaterial Power of Constructive Destruction Open
We propose that a critical examination of infrastructure sabotage should consider its material and immaterial dimension, and its constructive and destructive effects. Combining these two antagonisms, we suggest a matrix of four quadrants t…
Economic Barriers to the Adoption of Sustainable Agriculture in Tharaka-Nithi County of Kenya Open
The ballooning world human population, coupled with challenges of climate change, have extensively compromised global food security and sufficiency. This has led to unsustainable intensification of agricultural activities in an effort to m…
Assessment of Green Growth Practices in the Textile Industry: A Study of Thika Cloth Mill and Rivatex in Kenya Open
The textile industry is a vital contributor to economic growth and job creation in Kenya; however, its significant environmental impact raises concerns about sustainability. Globally, the industry is a major polluter, consuming vast amount…
Aligning the management of nature-based solutions to locally led adaptation principles: A case study of sand dams in Makueni County, Kenya Open
Advocates of Nature-based Solutions (NbS) have argued that the approaches are important for addressing the various social and environmental challenges, including adaptation to climate change and biodiversity conservation. The International…
Land use and land cover changes in the Mijikenda Kaya sacred forests of Coastal Kenya: impacts on culture and conservation of UNESCO World Heritage Sites Open
Land use and land cover (LULC) change detection is essential for understanding the dynamics of landscape patterns and the broader environmental and cultural implications. Over the past 30 years, the sacred Mijikenda Kaya forests have exper…
Community Forest Associations Boundaries and Sustainable Forest Management in Loita Forest, Narok County, Kenya Open
The Kenya Forest Act of 2005, subsequently revised in 2016, introduced the Kenya Forest Service and its mandate to engage in Participatory Forest Management (PFM) agreements with local communities adjoining state forests. This framework ne…
Mega Projects and De-commonization: Infrastructure, Land Tenure and Local Institutions Change in a Communal Conservancy in Isiolo, Kenya Open
In this paper, we examine how mega projects transform land tenure and local institutions in the context of a community-based conservation (CBC) model in northern Kenya. The model was introduced in some parts of Africa in the early 1990s to…
Milk Markets in Agropastoralist Areas of Africa – A Photoset Open
The photos displayed in this document were taken in Kenya and Ghana as part of the research project Connecting Agropastoral Food Culture Research to Livestock Commercialisation Policy.
Milk Markets in Agropastoral Areas of Africa Open
This briefing suggests how markets in artisanal milk products may contribute to agropastoralist livelihoods in semi-arid Africa. In some of these areas, milk plays important nutritional and cultural roles, but production is declining due t…
The ‘Bald’ Ecosystem: Indigenous Resource Governance and Restoration of Kivaa Forest, Kenya Open
The Kivaa ecosystem was rich in biodiversity until the late 1940s. Following human-induced conversion through logging and uncontrolled extraction of trees for charcoal, timber, and herbal medicine, the ecosystem changed progressively betwe…
COVID-19, Disrupted Futures, and Challenges for African Studies Open
In Africa, as elsewhere in the world, the COVID-19 pandemic has multiple impacts on quotidian life. At the same time, it influences the way people think about the future. The crisis gives rise to a feeling of uncertainty, while casting dou…
Forest Crime in Africa: Actors, Markets and Complexities Open
Forest crime has recently surpassed the illegal transnational trade in ivory and other forms of wildlife crime in terms of value and volume, thus making it one of the greatest global challenges of the twenty-first century. This rising tren…
Rethinking African Futures after COVID-19 Open
This article focuses on the impact of COVID-19 in Africa, describes its effects for ongoing research, and asks how it may impact African studies. In Africa, as elsewhere in the world, the pandemic is changing the way people think about the…
Conflict Resolution and Crime Surveillance in Kenya: Local Peace Committees and Nyumba Kumi Open
In the wake of widespread interethnic “clashes” and al-Shabaab terrorist attacks in Kenya over the last few years, the state has embarked on the devolution of capacities for ensuring security and peace to the local level. The state gave th…
Turning conflict into coexistence: cross-cutting ties and institutions in the agro-pastoral borderlands of Lake Naivasha basin, Kenya Open
The Maasai/Kikuyu agro-pastoral borderlands of Maiella and Enoosupukia, located in the hinterlands of Lake Naivasha’s agro-industrial hub, are particularly notorious in the history of ethnicised violence in the Kenya’s Rift Valley. In Octo…