SAGA Progress Report-2006-Appendix 2

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APPENDIX II
DECENTRALIZATION AND THE SOCIAL ECONOMICS OF DEVELOPMENT: LESSONS FROM KENYA
Christopher B. Barrett, Andrew G. Mude and John M. Omiti, editors

TABLE OF CONTENTS

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

CONTRIBUTORS

CHAPTER 1	Decentralization and the Social Economics of Development: An Overview of Concepts and Evidence from Kenya (Christopher B. Barrett, Andrew G. Mude and John M. Omiti)
PART I: SUCCESSES AND FAILURES OF DECENTRALIZATION IN RURAL KENYA
CHAPTER 2	A Qualitative Analysis of Success and Failure Factors of Agricultural Cooperatives in Central Kenya (James Karanja Nyoro and Isaac Komo Ngugi)
CHAPTER 3	Institutional Incompatibility and Deregulation: Explaining the Dismal Performance of Kenya’s Coffee Cooperatives (Andrew G. Mude)
CHAPTER 4	Decentralization, Community-Based Organizations and Access to Agricultural Extension Services in Eastern Kenya (Godiah L. Mugunieri and John M. Omiti)
CHAPTER 5	Access to and Willingness to Pay for Agricultural Extension in Western Kenya (Elizabeth Nambiro and John M. Omiti)
CHAPTER 6	Decentralization of Pastoral Resources Management and its Effects on Environmental Degradation and Poverty, Experience from Northern Kenya (Kioko Munyao and Christopher B. Barrett)
PART II: SOCIOECONOMIC AND INSTITUTIONAL PRECONDITIONS FOR SUCCESSFUL DECENTRALIZATION
CHAPTER 7	Linkages Between Community, Environmental, and Conflict Management: Experiences from Northern Kenya (Guyo O. Haro, Godana J. Doyo and John G. McPeak)
CHAPTER 8	The Unfulfilled Promise of Microfinance in Kenya: The KDA Experience (Sharon M. Osterloh and Christopher B. Barrett)
CHAPTER 9	The Effects of Farmer Community Group Participation on Rural Livelihoods in Kenya (David M. Amudavi)
CHAPTER 10	On Economic Transfers through Social Networks in Kenya’s Smallholder Sector (Heidi Hogset)

CONTRIBUTORS

David M. Amudavi, is a Lecturer at the Department of Agricultural Education and Extension, Egerton University, PO Box 536 Njoro, Kenya, and a Post Doctoral Fellow, International Centre of Insect Physiology and Ecology (ICIPE), Nairobi, Kenya.

Christopher B. Barrett is International Professor in the Department of Applied Economics and Management, Cornell University, 315 Warren Hall, Ithaca, NY 14853, USA. He is also Editor of the American Journal of Agricultural Economics and Director of the African Food Security and Natural Resources Management Program at Cornell University.

Godana J. Doyo is the District Drought Management Officer for the Arid Lands Resources Management Project in Marsabit, PO Box 155, Marsabit, Kenya.

Guyo O. Haro is the project manager for the GTZ/GEF Indigenous Vegetation Project, PO Box 204, Marsabit, Kenya.

Heidi Hogset is Associate Professor in the Department of Agricultural Economics, Molde University College NO-6402 Molde, Norway

John G. McPeak is Assistant Professor in the Department of Public Administration, Syracuse University, 336 Eggers Hall, Syracuse, NY 13244, USA.

Andrew G. Mude is an Economist at the International Livestock Research Institute, PO Box 30709, Nairobi, Kenya.

Godiah L. Mugunieri is a Research Scientist at the Kenya Agricultural Research Institute (KARI), PO Box 362, Kikuyu, Kenya.

Kioko Munyao is a Food Security and Policy Advisor with World Vision Canada, 1 World Drive, Toronto, Ontario L5T 2Y4, Canada.

Elizabeth Nambiro is a PhD candidate in the Institute of Plant Nutrition, University of Bonn, Karlrobert-Kreiten-Str. 13, 53115 Bonn, Germany.

Isaac K. Ngugi is a Research Fellow in the Tegemeo Institute of Agricultural Policy and Development, Egerton University, PO Box 20498, Nairobi, Kenya.

James K. Nyoro is the Director, Tegemeo Institute of Agricultural Policy and Development, Egerton University, PO Box 20498, Nairobi, Kenya.

John M. Omiti is a Senior Policy Analyst at the Kenya Institute of Public Policy Research and Analysis (KIPPRA), PO Box 56445, Nairobi, Kenya.

Sharon M. Osterloh is a social science lecturer in the Social Science Department at Edgewood College, 1000 Edgewood College Drive, Madison, WI 53711, USA.

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