Accommodating diverse actors and practices in the climate-development nexus : The case of Kenya’s dairy sector

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3.2 Introduction 3.3 Materials and Methods 3.3.1 Research areas 3.3.2 Research design 3.3.3 Data Collection 3.3.4 Data Analysis 3.3.4.1 Developing Farmer Typologies 3.3.4.2 LED Dairy Practices 3.4 Results 3.4.1 Farmer Typology 3.4.2 Uptake of LED-Practices 3.4.3 Multilevel Uptake of LED-Practices 3.4.4 Explaining Variations in Uptake of LED-Practices 3.4.4.1 Regional Conditions 3.4.4.2 Household Clusters 3.4.4.3 LED-Practices 3.5 Discussion 4 Feeding cattle under suboptimal conditions in Kenya: From emphasising technical (non-)adoption to stimulating adaptive performance 4.1 Abstract 4.2 Introduction 4.3 Conceptual framing of adaptive performance 4.4 Methods 4.4.1 The research area 4.4.2 Data collection and analysis 4.5 Results 4.5.1 Navigating access to production assets 4.5.2 Cattle feeding practices in the wet season 4.5.3 Cattle feeding practices in a (prolonged) dry season 4.6 Discussion 4.7 Conclusion 5 Beyond the formal-informal dichotomy: Towards accommodating diverse milk-collection practices in the economic middle of Kenya's dairy sector 5.1 Abstract 5.2 Introduction 5.3 Methodology and methods 5.3.1 Research area 5.3.2 Sampling milk collectors 5.3.3 Data collection and analysis 5.4 Results: diverse milk-collection practices in the economic middle of Kenya's dairy sector 5.4.1 Milk quantity measurements 5.4.2 Milk quality measurements 5.4.3 Selling the collected milk 5.4.4 Establishing milk payments 5.4.5 Milk prices and competition