Enabling modernisation, marginalising alternatives? Kenya's agricultural policy and smallholders

Reinventing agricultural extension to smallholders

In recent years, many countries have realized the need to revive agricultural extension services to promote pro-poor growth, reach poor marginalised smallholder farmers and address new challenges on sustainability, environmental degradation and climate change. This paper discusses evolving concepts and approaches in agricultural extension, past experiences of key countries, problems and failure...

Policy Harmonization: Limits and Alternatives

Globalization is an important reason for the current interest in the harmonization of national policies. In the European Community/Union harmonization of the national laws and policies of the member states was one of three legal techniques the Rome Treaty made available for establishing and maintaining a common market. The long history of policy harmonization in the EC/EU provides a good empiri...

Future Biofuels Policy Alternatives

Public Sector Modernisation the Verdict so Far Good Policy - Poor,

Environmental Conservation on Agricultural Working Land: Assessing Policy Alternatives Using a Spatially Heterogeneous Land Allocation Model