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Harnessing Proposed Land Reforms to Promote Environmental Conservation in Kenya: Lessons from The Case of Mwaluganje Elephant Sanctuary and Hombe Community Forest Association

Reports & Research
April, 2012
Kenya
Forest Tenure
Indigenous & Community Land Rights
Land & Food Security
Land & Investments
advocacy
agricultural land management
agriculture
community land rights
environment
forest conservation
land access
land administration
land economics
land management
natural resources management
poverty
rural development
rural population
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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Large Scale Land Acquisitions for Investment in Kenya

Is the participation, and benets of affected local communities meaningful, and equitable?

Journal Articles & Books
Reports & Research
December, 2016
Kenya
Indigenous & Community Land Rights
Land & Gender
Land & Investments
Rangelands, Drylands & Pastoralism
alienation (land)
capital value (land)
communal ownership
community land rights
compensation
gender equity in access to land
indigenous peoples' lands
indigenous people's tenure
land access
land acquisitions
land administration
land allocation
land consolidation
land economics
land governance
land law
land management
land subdivision
land tenure
land tenure systems
land transactions
land valuation
local communities
natural resources management
regularization of illegal occupation
research
tenure security
Land 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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The Constitution of Kenya and the National Land Policy

Journal Articles & Books
Legislation & Policies
December, 2012
Kenya
Indigenous & Community Land Rights
Land & Gender
Land & Investments
Land, Climate Change & Environment
community forestry
customary land rights
environment
land administration
land governance
land management
land policies
land use
natural resources management
private ownership
property
public ownership
sustainable land management
sustainable land use
The constitution of Kenya , 2010

Sessional Paper No.3 of 2009 on the National Land Policy
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The Community Land Act,2016

Legislation & Policies
September, 2016
Kenya
Indigenous & Community Land Rights
Land & Gender
Land & Investments
Land Conflicts
Rangelands, Drylands & Pastoralism
advocacy
boundaries
cadastral register
common lands
common law
common property
common rights
communal ownership
communal territory
community land rights
compensation
continuum in land rights
customary land rights
customary law
customary tenure
gender equity in access to land
indigenous peoples' land rights
indigenous peoples' lands
Indigenous Peoples
indigenous people's tenure
investment funds
land administration
land management
land registration
land use
land-use planning
local communities
natural resources management
sustainable land management
sustainable land use
territory
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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The Forest Conservation and Management Act, 2016

Legislation & Policies
September, 2016
Kenya
Forest Tenure
Indigenous & Community Land Rights
Land & Gender
Land & Investments
Land, Climate Change & Environment
agroforestry systems
alienation (land)
community forestry
community land rights
deforestation
forest conservation
forest land
forest law
forest management plans
forestry
investment funds
land administration
land dispute
land dispute resolution
land investments
land management
local communities
natural disasters
natural resources management
private forests
state forests
sustainable land management
urban forestry
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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The Wildlife Conservation and Management Act, 2013.

Legislation & Policies
December, 2013
Kenya
Indigenous & Community Land Rights
Land & Investments
Land Conflicts
Land, Climate Change & Environment
communal territory
community land rights
compensation
continuum in land rights
environment
investment funds
land administration
land dispute
land management
management rights
natural disasters
natural resources management
nature reserves
research
sustainable land management
sustainable land use
water management
water rights
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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Land matters: The role of land policies and laws for environmental migration in Kenya

Policy Papers & Briefs
January, 2016
Kenya
Indigenous & Community Land Rights
Land & Food Security
Land & Gender
Land & Investments
Land Conflicts
Land, Climate Change & Environment
eminent domain
encroachment
environment
intensive land use
land administration
land use
land use mapping
land-use planning
rights of clearance
riparian rights
sustainable land use
tenant's rights
use rights
water management
water rights
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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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.
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The Orissa Government Land Settlement Act, 1962

Legislation
November, 1962
India
Indigenous & Community Land Rights
Land & Food Security
agriculture
land
land allocation
land ownership
land rights
land tenure
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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Southern Africa and challenges for Mozambique

Papers presented at the inaugural conference of the institute for social and economic studies

Conference Papers & Reports
December, 2008
Mozambique
Indigenous & Community Land Rights
Land & Food Security
Land & Investments
advocacy
land governance
mining
natural resources management
This 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.