Stephen Moiko

Disintegrating Pastoral Commons

Tenure Reform, Rangelands Individuation and Land-loss in a Maasai District, Kenya

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

In attempts to promote agricultural productivity and induce economic growth, African countries have regularly embarked on land tenure reforms to replace customary property systems with formal ones. In the Kenya rangelands, the Group Ranch system, a hybrid tenure system that allows communal ownership of titled land, was implemented in pastoral districts where individual holdings were deemed unsuitable. This book discusses the failure of the system in Kajiado District and the parallel transformation of Maasailand into private individual holdings, which has eroded land security, facilitated land-loss, widened socio-economic disparities and made pastoral livelihoods difficult. It suggests that communal tenure systems may be useful in preventing and addressing resource related problems, and that tailoring land policies and reforms to clarify and strengthen customary systems can play a significant role in promoting land conservation and productivity in Africa's drylands and enhance security for its inhabitants. This book should be of interest to students, development actors and policy makers broadly interested in topics of Land Tenure, Rangelands, Pastoralism and Social Change in Africa.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: LAP Lambert Academic Publishing
• Seitenzahl: 132
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. Juni 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 220mm x 150mm x 8mm
• Gewicht: 190g
• ISBN-13: 9783844385557
• ISBN-10: 384438555X
• Artikelnr.: 33580133

Autorenporträt

Stephen S. Moiko, estudió antropología en Kenia y se doctoró en la Universidad McGill de Canadá. Sus intereses de investigación se han centrado en los entornos de los pastizales, donde se centra en los sistemas de tenencia de la tierra y los derechos de propiedad, los medios de vida de los pastores, la conservación, los regímenes de propiedad común (CPR), las instituciones y la seguridad alimentaria.