Using interview triads to understand the barriers to effective food security policy in Kenya: a case study application

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dc.contributor.authorBrownhill, Leigh
dc.contributor.authorHickey, Gordon
dc.date.accessioned2012-10-26T15:04:19Z
dc.date.available2012-10-26T15:04:19Z
dc.date.copyright2012
dc.date.issued2012
dc.descriptionAbstract onlyen
dc.description.abstractThis paper presents the results of an exploratory study on food security policy in Kenya. Key informant interviews are used to provide a ‘multiperspective’ lens through which to garner insights into Kenya’s food security policy processes and emerging resilient farming system practices. Seeking to situate the policy-making process in its ‘real-life’ institutional context, we identified three interlinked institutions (at government, research and farm levels) and interviewed individuals within each who could speak authoritatively on food policy challenges. We concentrated on Wote, a semi-arid agro-pastoral area in Makueni County, Eastern Province. From different starting points, the interviewees came to agree on the biggest challenges to the development of effective food security policy in Kenya: information, research and education. The paper further reflects on the methodology and assesses its potential efficacy in the study of hunger and its solutions, especially in the realm of knowledge integration, the democratization of research and policy-making processes and the opening up of reciprocal communication pathways amongst institutional actors.en
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dc.identifier.citationBrownhill, L. & Hickey, G. M. (2012). Using interview triads to understand the barriers to effective food security policy in Kenya: a case study application. Food Security. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12571-012-0183-2en
dc.identifier.issn1876-4517
dc.identifier.issn1876-4525
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10625/50449
dc.language.isoen
dc.relation.journalFood Security
dc.titleUsing interview triads to understand the barriers to effective food security policy in Kenya: a case study applicationen
dc.typeJournal Article (peer-reviewed)en
idrc.copyright.holderSpringer
idrc.copyright.holderInternational Society for Plant Pathology
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idrc.project.componentnumber106510001
idrc.project.number106510
idrc.project.titleEnhancing Ecologically Resilient Food Security in the Semiarid Midlands of Kenya (CIFSRF)en
idrc.recordsserver.bcsnumberIC01-574-11
idrc.rims.adhocgroupIDRC SUPPORTEDen

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