Agricultural policy making in Kenya: why must smallholder farmers’ agency be made central? - Fredrick Ajwang (SPRU, University of Sussex), Joanes Atela (ACTS, Nairobi),

These experts and the UN’s (2015-2030) Sustainable Development Goals the ‘innovations’ they champion are believed to be the (SDGs), particularly the SDGs 1 (no poverty), 2 (zero drivers of agricultural development in Kenya. [...] Yet others do research for The farmers’ organizations they develop are viewed and credit, as well as the lack of knowledge of agricultural and hindering liberalisation. [...] The decline in maize production during the 1980s more vulnerable in the era of liberalisation, due to the by modernisation, emerging out of their embrace of the Beyond modernisation as agricultural intensification, coincided with the adoption of liberalisation policies in dismantling of state provisioned services in marketing 5 right technologies and market instruments. [...] policy should accommodate the possibility of Policy ought to nurture the diversity of such collective mobilisation by smallholder farmers experiences that are critical for learning and who refuse to submit to the logic of one-size-fits- innovation on the farm. [...] The politics of Agricultural carbon finance: The case of the Kenya Agricultural Carbon Project.