The Research Division, Ministry of Agriculture, GOK and the Department of Economics, Egerton College cooperated with CIMMYT in the demonstration of an interdisciplinary farming system based approach to planning adaptive agricultural research in part of Siaya District, Nyanza Province, Kenya. Chapter 1 of the report describes the objectives of such demonstrations and the methods followed. Chapter 2 describes the circumstances of people farming in the part of Siaya District with less than 1500 mm rainfall per year.iii, 41 pages