This book comprises 13 chapters divided into four sections. The first section explores the cross-sectorial aspects of climate change governance, with a focus on the disconnect between the central and subnational levels of governance and on how climate change has become a contested policy arena....

This chapter contributes to the understanding of climate change adaptation and decentralization politics through a discussion of selected findings from two rural districts in Zambia, drawing on research conducted in 2012-16 as part of the research programme on Climate Change and Rural Institutions. ...

This chapter examines the institutional sustainability of internationally financed support for rural climate change adaptation in Uganda. The most common approach for such support is the 'planned climate change adaptation approach', which relies on projects as a mechanism for implementation and...

This chapter discusses the concept of political ecology in climate change management in the context of decentralized natural resource governance in rural Uganda. The presentation of the concept draws a connection between political, economic and social drivers and alterations to traditional access...

The special nature of groundwater and resulting challenges for its effective management agriculture is discussed. An overview of the institutional arrangements and instruments available for groundwater management in a variety of settings worldwide is provided. Some key issues regarding the way...

This book focuses on the experience of decentralization in rural Kenya and is presented in two parts under the following themes: (i) successes and failures of decentralization (chapters 2-6); and (ii) socioeconomic and institutional preconditions for successful decentralization (chapters 7-10). The ...

The study presented in this chapter identified the factors associated with the success and failure of agricultural cooperatives in the liberalized Kenyan rural economy in which government withdrew the administrative and financial support it had previously offered cooperatives and devolved...

This chapter identifies deficiencies in the formal and informal institutional environment underlying coffee cooperatives that undermined the efficacy of market decentralization in the smallholder coffee sub-sector in Kenya. It describes how the free and unregulated access to cooperative coffers...

This chapter explores whether decentralization of agricultural extension services enhances access for poor farmers, especially for demand-driven extension services that respond directly to farmers' needs, and encourages active farmer participation. It documents how decentralization has been...

This chapter examines client assessment of quality, cost and accessibility, as well as willingness to pay for agricultural extension services in rural western Kenya. Data from a 2004 questionnaire survey of 110 farmers are used in the analysis. The willingness-to-pay estimates for extension...