Thesis: Weighting Up the Risks: An Assessment of the ‘Water Efficient Maize’ Pathway in Kenyan Climate Change Adaptation
My PhD research focuses on the construction of a particular ’pro-poor’ climate change adaptation pathway in Kenya. It is a multi-sited research project that looks at how alternative knowledges, both from within and outside of Kenya, including those of the climate scientist, biotechnology regulators, and smallholder farmers, are framing and driving a technology-centred approach to adaptation to an agricultural future that is climatically, as well as socially and economically, uncertain.
The research is supervised by Professor Ian Scoones and is funded through the UK’s Economic and Social Research Council.
