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   The pastoralist’s parcel: towards better land tenure recognition and climate change response in Kenya’s dry lands

   Journal Articles & Books

   May, 2013

   Kenya

   Indigenous & Community Land Rights

   Land Conflicts

   Land, Climate Change & Environment

   Rangelands, Drylands & Pastoralism

   cadastral administration

   community land rights

   customary tenure

   formal tenure

   indigenous people's tenure

   land administration

   land investments

   land management

   land tenure

   land tenure systems

   local communities

   management rights

   natural resources management

   pastoral land rights

   pastoral lands

   pastoralists

   tenure security

   statutory tenure

   sustainable land management

   tenure regularization

   Conventional notions of the ‘land parcel’ have been extended: previously unrecognized tenures including customary, nomadic, or communal interests are now incorporated into the concept. Technical tools including the Social Tenure Domain Model (STDM) enable these new understandings to be operationalized in land administration systems. The nomadic pastoralists of Kenya’s dry land regions illustrate where these new approaches can be applied.