Includes bibliographical references and index.

Decentralization and the social economics of development: an overview of concepts and evidence from Kenya / Christopher B. Barrett, Andrew G. Mude and John M. Omiti -- A qualitative analysis of success and failure factors of agricultural cooperatives in central Kenya / James Karanja Nyoro and Isaac Komo Ngugi -- Institutional incompatibility and deregulation: explaining the dismal performance of Kenya's coffee cooperatives / Andrew G. Mude -- Decentralization, community-based organizations and access to agricultural extension services in eastern Kenya / Godiah L. Mugunieri and John M. Omiti -- Access to and willingness to pay for agricultural extension in western Kenya / Elizabeth Nambiro and John M. Omiti -- Decentralization of pastoral resources management and its effects on environmental degradation and poverty: experience from northern Kenya / Kioko Munyao and Christopher B. Barrett -- Linkages between community, environmental, and conflict management: experiences from northern Kenya / Guyo O. Haro, Godana J. Doyo and John G. McPeak -- The unfulfilled promise of microfinance in Kenya: the KDA experience / Sharon M. Osterloh and Christopher B. Barrett -- The effects of farmer community group participation on rural livelihoods in Kenya / David M. Amudavi -- On economic transfers through social networks in Kenya's smallholder sector / Heidi Hogset.