New Publication: Agricultural Intensification, Environmental Conservation, Conflict and Co-Existence at Lake Naivasha, Kenya



By Gerda Kuiper (African Climate and Environment Center – Future African Savannas (AFAS)), Eric Kioko (Project C03 Green Futures) and Michael Bollig (Project A04 Future Conservation). Previously, the trio had already convened a workshop titled “Agricultural Intensification and Conflicts over Natural Resources:
Social Dynamics in the Lake Naivasha Basin, Kenya”
at the Global South Studies Center (GSSC) in Cologne, which laid the foundation for this publication.

Abstract

This interdisciplinary volume provides a comprehensive and rich analysis of the century-long socio-ecological transformation of Lake Naivasha, Kenya. Major globalised processes of agricultural intensification, biodiversity conservation efforts, and natural-resource extraction have simultaneously manifested themselves in this one location.

Gerda Kuiper and Eric Kioko holding their newly published book
Two of the three editors: Gerda Kuiper (left) and Eric Kioko (right).

These processes have roots in the colonial period and have intensified in the past decades, after the establishment of the cut-flower industry and the geothermal-energy industry. The chapters in this volume exemplify the multiple, intertwined socio-environmental crises that consequently have played out in Naivasha in the past and the present, and that continue to shape its future.

“Agricultural Intensification, Environmental Conservation, Conflict and Co-Existence at Lake Naivasha, Kenya” contains contributions by several researchers of the CRC-TRR Future Rural Africa:

Reference

Kuiper, G., Kioko, E., & Bollig, M. (eds.) 2024. Agricultural Intensification, Environmental Conservation, Conflict and Co-Existence at Lake Naivasha, Kenya. Leiden: Brill. Link

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