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.

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:

• Chapter 7: The Cut-Flower Industry in the Social-Ecological System of Lake Naivasha: Production Networks and Marketisation
  Authors: Detlef Müller-Mahn (Project C03 Green Futures) and Andreas Gemählich
  
  
• Chapter 11: Frontier Dynamics: Cross-Cutting Ties, Conflict and Contestation on Agricultural and Conservation Hinterlands of Lake Naivasha
  Authors: Marie Müller-Koné (Project B03 Violent Futures) and Eric Kioko (Project C03 Green Futures)
  
  
• Chapter 12: Devolution of Governance and the Politics of Fishery at Lake Naivasha, Kenya
  Authors: Johannes Dittmann Antony F. Ogolla (Project C03 Green Futures)
  
  
• Chapter 13: Conflicting Futures of Geothermal Energy Development in Naivasha: Between State Visions and Community Expectations
  Authors: Chigozie Nweke-Eze (Project C02 Energy Futures) and Christine Adongo
  
  

Reference

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