In Africa, as elsewhere, land rights have remained a bastion of male power and privilege. Since land is a fundamental resource for improving living conditions and economic empowerment, the lack of land rights for women undermines efforts to promote gender equity and equality within a patriarchal society. The minimal transformation of women’s socio-economic position with regards to access and control of land is, in many cases, due to land reform programmes and related processes whose design or implementation is “gender neutral”.
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Library ResourceJournal Articles & BooksDecember, 2014Kenya
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Library ResourceJournal Articles & BooksDecember, 2014Kenya
The land question in many African countries has geographical, political, economic, social and demographic nuances. These factors color land and resource rights for pastoral and forest dwelling communities. Land as property draws from the universality of the theory of property in time and space with the earliest theoretical explanations of property being occupation of land and where property belonged of right to him who seized it first. Land therefore represents the earliest form of property and includes resources on the land such as trees; pasture; water and wetlands.
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How conservationist Rhetoric Drove Bedford Biofuels out of Tana Delta - Kenya
Journal Articles & BooksDecember, 2014KenyaWhen the Canadian company Bedford Biofuels (BB) started talks with local ranch owners in Tana Delta district (Kenya) about subleasing their land for a large jatropha plantation, they were not the first ones to come to the region for a large-scale agricultural project. Nor were they the first to explore the possibilities of starting a jatropha plantation in Kenya’s coastal area.
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Library ResourceJournal Articles & BooksDecember, 2014Kenya
Makueni District has experienced low crop production per unit area despite increased hectarage under crop
production. The district relies heavily on farming for food and income generating activities for the households.
However, poverty level has been on the increase due to poor crop production and limited diversity in sources of
income. Analysis of field survey carried in the district shows high variability of soil nutrients (Nitrogen,
Phosphorous, and potassium), Cation Exchange Capacity (CEC) and soil pH due to various land use systems -
Library ResourceJournal Articles & BooksDecember, 2014Kenya
Foot
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and
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mouth disease remains a serious endemic disease in Kenya causing extensive production
losses in
the dairy industry.
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n
order to
understand
the
foot
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and
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mouth disease (FMD)
situation
in Kenya and related
risk factors
in
high risk zones that include;
the
trade and stock routes,
national parks and game reserves, proposed disease free zones and borderlan
ds;
a
cross sectional
sero
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survey
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