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  1. Library Resource
    Journal Articles & Books
    December, 2006
    Kenya

    he increasing land scarcity and the worsening trend of poverty in Kenya in recent years have raised concerns about the focus on land-based agriculture as the basis of growth in the rural areas. This paper combines two complementary data sets obtained from two locations in Kenya, drawn against distinctively different land availability patterns, to examine the diverse rural asset base and key sources of livelihood in the rural areas.

  2. Library Resource
    Journal Articles & Books
    December, 2008
    Kenya

    Land is one of the most important naturaE resources for the creation of wealth in many societies. Its ownership and control brings economic power, which in turn, is often the basis for social and polifical power Unlike other factors of production such as labour and capilal, land is in fixed supply. Of the total land area of Kenya of 56.9 million hectares, more than 90 percent is agricultural land. Over 80 percent of this land is categorized as Arid and Semiarid land where about 25 percent of the total population resides and over 50 percent of the total livestock is produced.

  3. Library Resource
    Reports & Research
    August, 2008
    Kenya

    The study was undertaken in order to investigate the management approaches used by the institutions dealing with approvals of land development applications and assess the impacts of such management approaches on the land development applications approval processes

  4. Library Resource
    Reports & Research
    December, 2017
    Kenya

    Declining size of the farm holdings in most high agricultural potential areas as a result of continuous land fragmentation is currently a major policy concern in Kenya. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the effect of land fragmentation and agro-ecological zones (AEZs) on food security and farm efficiency in Kenya. The study used data collected from 384 farm-households that were randomly selected from three AEZs in the Embu County, using a multistage stratified sampling technique.

  5. Library Resource
    Reports & Research
    December, 2008
    Kenya

    The history of land policies from the time of colonial administrators to the time of development planners and reform programmes (resettlement schemes, adjudication and demarcation for registration purposes) underscores the history of most Kenyan citizens losing their rights and access to land and its commitant benefits.

  6. Library Resource
    Reports & Research
    December, 2011
    Kenya

    Strategy implementation is the translation of chosen strategy into organizational action so as to achieve strategic goals and objectives. Strategy implementation is also defined as the manner in which an organization should develop, utilize, and amalgamate organizational structure, control systems, and culture to follow strategies that lead to competitive advantage and a better performance. The main objectives of this study were to investigate the challenges of strategy implementation in the ministry of Northern Kenya and other arid areas.

  7. Library Resource

    A Case Study of Athi River area, Nairobi

    Reports & Research
    March, 2008
    Kenya

    This study addresses certain aspects of data modeling with respect to Geographic
    information systems (GIS). The primary objective of this project is an attempt to
    develop an automated Land Information Management System (LIMS). In Kenya today,
    land information is held mostly in paper form, managed manually and even the paper
    records themselves are not optimally organized. The process of retrieving and
    disseminating this information is inefficient, time consuming and cannot support timely
    decision making.

  8. Library Resource
    Reports & Research
    December, 2011
    Kenya

    Land is a key asset of any country. It is one of the factors of production which includes labour
    and capital. It is critical for economic, social and political development of a country. There exists
    a correlation between proper utilization of land and the economic advancement of a country and
    its proper management can only be achieved if information on the said land is available. The
    current globalization trend in the world, demand for efficient and effective land services requires

  9. Library Resource
    Reports & Research
    December, 2009
    Kenya

    This study was motivated by the need to understand the interplay
    between cotton farming in Barwessa and household food security
    in the area.
    The study was centered on three main objectives:
    • To examine the extent to which subsistence farming is affected by
    cotton,
    • To identify the relationship between levels of household food security
    in relation to income and expenditure,
    • To investigate women's access to income from cotton production, their
    food production and food security roles,

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