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   Land for infrastructure development: compulsory acquisition and compensation of unregistered/undocumented land in Kenya

   Journal Articles & Books

   March, 2017

   Kenya

   Land & Gender

   Land & Investments

   Land Conflicts

   Land, Climate Change & Environment

   Rangelands, Drylands & Pastoralism

   cadastral administration

   cadastral register

   capital value (land)

   communal ownership

   compensation

   compulsory acquisitions

   deed registration

   displacement

   eminent domain

   land administration

   land dispute

   land dispute resolution

   land governance

   land investments

   land ownership

   land registration

   land titling

   land use

   land valuation

   management rights

   natural resources management

   research

   sustainable land management

   sustainable land use

   title deeds

   women

   youth

   Kenya’s Vision 2030 aims at transforming the country into a newly industrialized middle income country

   and infrastructural development is high on the agenda to achieve this. Competing land uses and existing

   interests in land make the use of eminent domain by government in acquiring land inevitable. However

   most of the land earmarked for compulsory acquisition comprises of un- registered land whose interests

   are not formally documented. Kenya has progressive statutes that provide for compensation of land that is