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A new paper 'Landscape, time and cultural resilience: a brief history of agriculture in Pokot and Marakwet, Kenya', authored by Professor Henrietta Moore and Dr Matthew Davies from ¹û¶³Ó°Ôº African Studies, has been published in the Journal of Eastern African Studies.

The paper considers the Marakwet and Pokot communities of northwest Kenya, both of which have been subjected to a range of external agricultural interventions. However, Marakwet and Pokot farming remains largely based on practices with a deeper history. The authors argue that this continuity through time also masks smaller-scale innovations, movements and changes that attest to a dynamic, yet hidden ‘cultural resilience’ spanning several centuries.