This book offers a genealogical critique of how food scarcity was
governed in colonial Kenya. With an approach informed by the
'analysis of government', the study accounts for the emergence and
persistence of dominant approaches to promoting food security in
Kenya and elsewhere in Africa - policies and practices that
prioritize increased agricultural production as the principal means
of achieving food security. Drawing on a range of archival sources,
the book investigates how those tasked with governing colonial
Kenya confronted food as a particular kind of problem. It
emphasizes the ways in which that problem shifted in conjunction
with the emergence and consolidation of the colonial state and
economic relations in the territory. The book applies a novel
conceptual approach to the historical study of African food systems
and famine, and provides the first longitudinal and in-depth
analysis of the dynamics of food scarcity and its government in
Kenya.
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