Land Reform in Kenya

Webinar: The Land Reform Agenda for Kenya

10 October 2018

Location

Online
United States
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US
Kenya
Access to Land & Tenure Security
Indigenous & Community Land Rights
Land & Corruption
agrarian reform
cadastral administration
land administration
land reform
land rights
negotiated land reform
title deed

Land use and reforms are at the heart of Kenya’s political and economic future stability. Land is an enabler to support manufacturing, access to affordable and decent housing, universal health care, food security and nutrition.  Land is a critical driver in urban development through regulating access to land and use to achieve security of tenure for all.

Organizations: 
Land Portal Foundation
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
European Union
Kenya Land Alliance
Government of Kenya
When Defending the Land Becomes a Crime

When Defending the Land Becomes a Crime

7 September 2018
Authors: 
Moira Birss
Latin America and the Caribbean
Guatemala
Mexico
Ecuador
Peru
Global
Access to Land & Tenure Security
Indigenous & Community Land Rights
Land & Corruption
advocacy
community land rights
customary land rights
indigenous land rights
indigenous lands
indigenous peoples
indigenous tenure
land rights
land rights activists

BERTA CÁCERES, ASSASSINATED in her home in March 2016, was just one of hundreds of Latin American environmental activists attacked in recent years. At least 577 environmental human rights defenders (EHRDs) were killed in Latin America between 2010 and 2015 – more than in any other region. In addition to violence, EHRDs suffer legal threats and harassment, severely impeding their work. Before Cáceres' murder, she faced trumped-up charges due to her opposition to hydroelectric dams on her indigenous community's territory.

 

Maria in Brazil - Land Defender

We will not tire: Taking the struggle of environment and land defenders to the corridors of power

7 September 2018
Authors: 
Ben Leather
Honduras
Mexico
Brazil
Colombia
Philippines
Access to Land & Tenure Security
Indigenous & Community Land Rights
Land & Corruption
advocacy
community land rights
extractive industries
indigenous land rights
land rights activists

“It is up to me to follow in the same footsteps as my father walked, so that they’ll give us back our land again.” 

- Ramón Bedoya, Colombia

 

“The desire for justice and reparations for the fallen defenders, for their families, and above all that this never happens again—that is an energy that compels you to keep working.”

– Isela González, Mexico

 

“The owner of the plantation… should give back our land… It’s not just for our family but the rest of the people living in the area. My father offered his blood. He gave his life. We will continue.”

Linking open data for land rights

Countries

South Africa

South Africa - Context and Land Governance

Despite the achievement of Constitutional democracy in 1994, 'the land question' is at the heart of South Africa's struggles to overcome the cumulative legacies of nearly 350 years of white minority rule. The emotive quality of land policies evokes painful legacies fuelled by disappointments with the official land reform programme ushered in by the new Constitution of 1996. There is broad agreement that land reform programmes have not fulfilled their aims to significantly redistribute land and productive agrarian capacity, strengthen land tenure for the majority, and settle the restitution claims of victims of land dispossession.

Learn more about the successes and challenges in South Africa.

Rwanda agriculture land governance
Rwanda

Rwanda - Context and Land Governance

Rwanda is a small country and landlocked. It covers an area of 26,338 km². In Rwanda, land is an important issue due to two different characteristics: first is that Rwanda is one of the most densely populated countries in the world (416 people per km2 – (NISR, 2012). Being an agricultural country, where over 85% of its working class citizens depend on agriculture, adds more pressure on land as the sole economic capital to the rural peasants.

Learn more about successes and challenges and find more detailed land governance data in Rwanda.

Issues

indigenous peoples climate change
Land, Climate Change & Environment

Land, Climate Change & Environment recounted

Climate change can destabilize existing land and resource governance institutions and associated property rights across the spectrum of landscape types. Transformed climatic conditions, manifested in either rapid-onset or slow-onset ways, can change how land and natural resources are accessed and used as geographical shifts in resource productivity, resource scarcity, and therefore land use patterns occur.

Read more about Land, Climate Change & Environment

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