Building on illegal value chains to achieve sustainable management of natural resources? The case of indigenous aloe exploitation and trade in Baringo, Kenya
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This paper explores the consequences of ignoring pre-existing un-official and illegal networks for external interventions with approaches to sustain-able management of natural resources in marginal-ized areas of the developing world. To do so, it as-sesses the effects of a public Research & Develop-ment (R&D) intervention aimed at promoting sustain-able exploitation and trade of aloe-based products in the semi-arid Baringo County (Kenya), and how it interacted with an existing illegal supply chain dedi-cated to the exploitation of indigenous aloe species. Data were collected through a qualitative and partici-patory assessment that was conducted between April and November 2012, using an analytical framework and guidelines derived from the innovation system perspective. The study shows that geographical dis-parities in the effect of external intervention are the result of unplanned interactions between project stakeholders and actors from the illegal supply chain. The Baringo aloe case suggests that networks in-volved in illegal trade of natural resources should not be ignored or sidelined by R&D interventions but should on the contrary be supported to allow them to evolve towards certified trade.
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