The history of development intervention is marked by multiple failures at dialogue between analysts and practitioners; an impasse caused in part by the failure to recon- cile disparate professional languages. In Kenya, where critical thought for this book was generated, a cause célèbre in livestock intensification has been the ill-fated Maasai Project of the 1960s and 1970s. The wider East Africa region too is known for its repeated failures to sustain projects in agricultural extension, water manage- ment, and drought preparedness. It is against this backdrop, and the ever-increasing calls for better dialogue between analysts, practitioners, and indeed local people, that.
