Scaling up participatory agroforestry extension in Kenya: From pilot projects to extension policy

T. M Anyonge, Christine Holding, K. K Kareko and J. W Kimani

Development in Practice, 2001, vol. 11, issue 4, 449-459

Abstract: This paper describes developments in forestry extension in two districts of Kenya conducted under the auspices of the Nakuru and Nyandarua Forestry Extension Project 1990-1995 and the subsequent influence of those developments on extension policy pertaining to agroforestry in Kenya. It provides examples of innovative aspects within a conventional service-delivery programme and describes in some detail the successes, weaknesses, and opportunities of the pilot activities using a participatory extension methodology. These activities, together with others piloted in the country, have contributed to conceptualising the bottom-up planning approaches that underpin the National Agricultural Extension and Livestock Programme, a government programme that, in conjunction with the ongoing government restructuring, has replaced the previously dominant national approach of Training and Visit. The current programme relies on interdisciplinary and participatory planning in focal areas.

Date: 2001
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DOI: 10.1080/09614520120066738

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