Land plays a vital and central role in the economic, social-cultural and political lives of both individuals and communities. Given its centrality in the socio-economic and political spheres, national goals such as economic development, poverty reduction, social and political stability are closely linked to land. Land provides the livelihood base for the bulk of the population especially in the rural areas where agriculture is the main occupation. Despite their importance, land and environment in Kenya have suffered decades of mismanagement that has led to the current state of degradation.
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Library ResourceReports & ResearchApril, 2012Kenya
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Is the participation, and benets of affected local communities meaningful, and equitable?
Journal Articles & BooksReports & ResearchDecember, 2016KenyaLand acquisitions, either driven by foreign investments or domestic investment needs have continued to polarize opinions. When this research was proposed, it was premised on arguments by scholars Ruth Meinzen-Dick and Helen Markelova, who had analysed agricultural land deals, and argued that there were potentially two schools of thought about foreign acquisitions over agricultural land.
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Library ResourceJournal Articles & BooksLegislation & PoliciesDecember, 2012Kenya
The constitution of Kenya , 2010
Sessional Paper No.3 of 2009 on the National Land Policy
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Library ResourceLegislation & PoliciesSeptember, 2016Kenya
THE COMMUNITY LAND ACT No. 27 of 2016
Date of Assent: 3lst August,2016
Date of Commencement : 2 I st September, 201 6
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Library ResourceLegislation & PoliciesSeptember, 2016Kenya
THE FOREST CONSERVATION AND MANAGEMENT ACT, 2016 No. 34 of 2016
Date of Assent: 31st August, 2016
Date of Commencement: By Notice
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Library ResourceLegislation & PoliciesDecember, 2013Kenya
THE WILDLIFE CONSERVATION AND MANAGEMENT ACT, 2013 No. 47 of 2013
Date of Assent: 24th December, 2013
Date of Commencement: 10th January, 2014
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Library ResourcePolicy Papers & BriefsJanuary, 2016Kenya
Matters of environmental migration are frequently looked at from a humanitarian perspective.1 This policy brief will instead look at it with a lens focusing on land issues. The question of environmental migration is inevitably linked to the question of land for several reasons. First, climate and environmental change trigger and accelerate the loss of land due to sea-level rise, coastal erosion, landslides and other forms of land degradation.
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Library ResourceJournal Articles & BooksMay, 2013Kenya
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.
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Library ResourceLegislationNovember, 1962India
An Act to deal with the settlement of Government Land in the State of Odisha. It is enacted as a general legislation formulating a set of uniform principles regarding lease of Government waste lands with the primary objective of governing the settlement of waste lands in a planned manner uniformly throughout the State.
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Papers presented at the inaugural conference of the institute for social and economic studies
Conference Papers & ReportsDecember, 2008MozambiqueThis volume includes some of the papers presented at the Inaugural Conference of the Institute for Social and Economic Studies (IESE), which took place on 19 September 2007, in Maputo. The articles contained in this volume were selected from the panel on “Southern Africa”. The topics of the Conference, on “Challenges for social and economic research in Mozambique”, and of the panels were broad and dependent on papers submitted.
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