Author: H. W. O. Okoth-Ogendo
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Category : Land tenure
Languages : en
Pages : 11

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Author: Walter Odhiambo
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Category : Agriculture and state
Languages : en
Pages : 52

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This paper reviews Kenya's land laws and their impact on land use. It reveals the existence of a multiplicity of laws regulating land ownership and also reveals that there is a strong inclination towards a private ownership regime. Despite this trend, communal land ownership under the customary regime still remains in place in vast areas of Kenya causing a major source of conflict in land use and management.

Author: David John Campbell
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Category : Agricultural development projects
Languages : en
Pages : 244

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Author: Thomas A. Smucker
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Category : Land use
Languages : en
Pages : 39

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Author: David J. Campbell
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Category : Arid regions agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 244

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Author: Ephraim Nkonya
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 3319191683
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 695

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This volume deals with land degradation, which is occurring in almost all terrestrial biomes and agro-ecologies, in both low and high income countries and is stretching to about 30% of the total global land area. About three billion people reside in these degraded lands. However, the impact of land degradation is especially severe on livelihoods of the poor who heavily depend on natural resources. The annual global cost of land degradation due to land use and cover change (LUCC) and lower cropland and rangeland productivity is estimated to be about 300 billion USD. Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) accounts for the largest share (22%) of the total global cost of land degradation. Only about 38% of the cost of land degradation due to LUCC - which accounts for 78% of the US$300 billion loss – is borne by land users and the remaining share (62%) is borne by consumers of ecosystem services off the farm. The results in this volume indicate that reversing land degradation trends makes both economic sense, and has multiple social and environmental benefits. On average, one US dollar investment into restoration of degraded land returns five US dollars. The findings of the country case studies call for increased investments into the rehabilitation and restoration of degraded lands, including through such institutional and policy measures as strengthening community participation for sustainable land management, enhancing government effectiveness and rule of law, improving access to markets and rural services, and securing land tenure. The assessment in this volume has been conducted at a time when there is an elevated interest in private land investments and when global efforts to achieve sustainable development objectives have intensified. In this regard, the results of this volume can contribute significantly to the ongoing policy debate and efforts to design strategies for achieving sustainable development goals and related efforts to address land degradation and halt biodiversity loss.

Author: Organization for Social Science Research in Eastern Africa
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Category : Africa, Eastern
Languages : en
Pages : 410

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Author: John William Bennett
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Category : Agricultural development projects
Languages : en
Pages : 212

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Author: Daniel G. Maxwell
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Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 48

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Author: Marie Ladekjær Gravesen
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004435204
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 273

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Explore the violence and conflict that lead up to the land invasions prior to Kenya's 2017 general election. The Contested Lands of Laikipia tells how, and why, land claims and ethnic categories became increasingly politicized here over the past century.