num_pages: 320
description: Colonial Baringo was in many respects an unexceptional place, a backwater in the semi-arid Rift Valley of Kenya, lacking in cash crops and distant from larger markets. But in the middle years of colonial rule Baringo's anonymity gave way to notoriety. Prolonged drought and localized famine in the district from the mid-1920s led to claims that Baringo was a land of dramatic decay, brought on by overcrowding and livestock mismanagement.
language: English
title: Eroding the Commons: The Politics of Ecology in Baringo, Kenya, 1890s-1963
publisher: James Currey Ltd