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By: Kiarie Njoroge
Date: August 1st 2016
Source: AllAfrica.com / Daily Nation
Pastoralists are set to benefit from a Sh7.7 billion World Bank loan expected to ease losses related to drought and disease.
The financing is expected to cater for a range of activities including water provision, re-…
By: Macharia Mwangi
Date: August 12th 2016
Source: Daily Nation
Dr Swazuri told State agencies to stop eviction of Sengwer people from Embobut Forest.
National Land Commission chairman Muhammad Swazuri on Friday ordered State agencies to stop evicting indigenous people living in their ancestral…
Date: 17 aout 2016
Source: Agence ecofin
Par Souha Touré
Vendredi, le président de la Commission nationale des affaires foncières du Kenya (NLC), Dr Muhammad Swazuri (photo), a ordonné aux agences étatiques de stopper les expulsions arbitraires des populations habitant sur leurs terres…
By: Rachel Savage
Date: August 18th 2016
Source: The Guardian
They came without warning, forcing people from their homes with no time to collect their possessions. A deaf old man was attacked when he didn’t hear the orders to leave. Then the houses were burned to the ground.
More than 200…
By: Magdalena Mis and Isaiah Esipisu
Date: August 22nd 2016
Source: Thomson Reuters Foundation
Around the world, farmers are ageing as the sector fails to attract younger talent who head instead to cities in search of work
ROME/NAIROBI, Aug 22 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - For Kenyan farmer…
By: Katy Migiro
Date: September 2nd 2016
Source: Thomson Reuters Foundation
Community Land Bill lays out the steps for communities to acquire titles to their ancestral land
NAIROBI, Sept 2 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Impoverished nomadic communities across Kenya are to receive land titles…
By: LIZ ALDEN WILY
Date: 17 September 2016
Source: The Star
At last Kenya has a Community Land Act. This was enacted just 10 days before a constitutional deadline. The law is unlikely to come into force until regulations under the Act are issued. With a number of uncertainties in the law, and…
By: Danica Lo
Date: September 23rd 2016
Source: Food and Wine
Crowdsourcing and contracts help smallholder farmers in Ghana and Kenya.
For many smallholder farmers, staking claim to their own land can be a huge challenge. Landmapp, a tech company based in the Netherlands with a satellite…
By: John Wanyama
Date: October 6th 2016
Source: The Citizen Digital
The Ministry of land has raised a red flag over the rising cases of land grabbing and misuse of private land in the country.
Addressing the Ministry of Land officials on Wednesday, October 7, Lands Cabinet Secretary, Prof Jacob…
By: Galgalo Bocha
Date: November 1st 2016
Source: Daily Nation
Civil societies in Tana River County have said unresolved land ownership disputes are still a threat to the region's stability.
More than 20 groups operating under the banner "Right to Know", during an inquiry into human rights…
By: Patrick Lang'at
Date: November 14th 2016
Source: Daily Nation
State House on Sunday promised an engaging summit on land, pledging answers on historical injustices as well as the thorny issue of how much land a person can own.
The summit will be held on Monday at State House, Nairobi, the…
By: Nicholas Sewe
Date: November 16th 2016
Source: Hivisasa
U.S. Ambassador to Kenya Robert Godec has launched a new U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) program in support of seven community conservancies across Coastal Kenya.
The program is part of a new 5-year, Sh2 billion (US…