In Nyeri, central Kenya for instance, the survey showed an eighth-acre piece of land is being sold at an average of 20,000 dollars, from less than 10,000 dollars two years ago. And in other parts of the country, the same piece of land is being sold for at least 15,000 dollars. ...
The Ndungu Report: Land & Graft in Kenya Roger Southall Published in: Review of African Political Economy, 103, March 2005, pp.142-51.The following summary of the Report of the Ndungu Commission on Illegal and Irregular allocation of public land provides an insight into a critical, recent ep...
(2020) documented the acquisition of 4000 ha of land for private LB by estate developer companies in Jakarta, Indonesia. Similarly, Fält (2019) reported the acquisition of over 900 ha of customary lands in Oyibi, Ghana, by private real estate developers for similar purposes. This ...
The article discusses how agricultural companies and global investors are buying farmland around the world, claiming they are boosting poor economies. In Kenya, these investors are resented by some farmers and cattle herders who argue they are being replaced with no compensation. Topics include the ...
s calls for equity and justice in land matters. This article traces the main ways in which state power has been used to distribute and redistribute land (and land rights) in the Rift Valley, focusing on post-1960 smallholder settlement schemes, land-buying companies, and settlement in the ...
The 47 local governments in Kenya (elected county councils, each with an executive arm) may also enact laws applicable to their counties, providing these are in accordance with national law on the subject. Kenya’s Constitution specifies land survey and mapping, and boundaries and fencing, as th...
This paper aims to evaluate the internal processes of the current land administration in Kenya based on the following parameters that include ownerships, transactions, transfers, inquiries, public records of maps as attributes, issues, and customer satisfaction using stakeholder surveys and focused group...
Tracking between these modes is essential and is how the lights are kept on in California and the herds kept alive in Kenya. Such professionals in any complex infrastructure operate in networks, linking different people across the system. In both cases, their role is massively underappreciated and...
Local and foreign investors are frustrated by the 1978 Act that allows politicians to take land from communities and companies without compensation.
Based on the conclusions of Brasselle et al., 2002, Fenske, 2011 performed a comparative analysis of the empirical work on the relationship between land tenure and incentives to invest in six West African countries (Ghana, Nigeria, Ethiopia, Rwanda, Kenya and Zimbabwe), finding that studies ...