Climate adaptation in Kenya: Narratives and frames shaping policy and practice (NAI Working Papers 1

Views and opinions expressed in the adaptation are the sole responsibility of the author or authors of the adaptation and are not endorsed by The Nordic Africa Institute. [...] (2022) have drawn at- tention to how contrasting narratives frame the climate challenge and emphasised the importance of not losing sight of local material histories and power relations, including 8 | CLIMATE ADAPTATION IN KENYA through acknowledgement of how legacies of colonial and imperial inequality shape the phenomena of climate change. [...] As a solu- tion to the negative impacts of climate risk on people’s livelihoods in order to build resilience, the narrative frames the need to focus on increased capacity of farmers to enable them to protect food security and agricultural resources in light of climate var- iability (Maina, Newsham, and Okoti 2013). [...] Resilience refers to the àbility of a social or ecological system to absorb dis- turbances while retaining the same basic structure and ways of function, the capac- ity for self-organization and the capacity to adapt to stress and change’ (Mikulewicz and Taylor 2020, 629). [...] To understand the complexities of cli- mate adaptation in Kenya, our next step in future research is to examine and further refine our understanding of these issues from the perspectives of different stakeholders and how this shape the political economy of climate adaptation in Kenya.