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The economic lives of smallholder farmers

An analysis based on household data from nine countries

Reports & Research
March, 2015
Ethiopia, Kenya, Tanzania, Nicaragua, Bolivia, Vietnam, Bangladesh, Albania
Land & Food Security
sustainable development
land-use planning
rural areas
land use
smallholders
rural population
About two-thirds of the developing world’s 3 billion rural people live in about 475 million small farm households, working on land plots smaller than 2 hectares. 1 Many are poor and food insecure and have limited access to markets and services. Their choices are constrained, but they farm their land and produce food for a substantial proportion of the world’s population. Besides farming they have multiple economic activities, often in the informal economy, to contribute towards their small incomes.
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The impacts of individual land titling in Mbeere, eastern Kenya

Reports & Research
November, 2016
Kenya
land
land titling
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Transition to Sustainable Tropical Land Management

Reports & Research
November, 2014
Benin, Cameroon, Kenya, Philippines
land
land management
Following the example of Tiffen et al. on Machakos, Kenya, new macro-based evidence was collected in Machakos, the neighbouring Kitui district and in Benin, Cameroon and the Philippines, to assess the factors Ã la Boserup, inducing transitions towards sustainable land management, such as terracing, stone bands etc. We find that relative scarcity of land can be seen to induce technical changes, in the sense of Hayami & Ruttan, that correspond to the new relative scarcity, making higher man-land ratios the optimal choice.
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Land Access, Land Rental and Food Security: Evidence from Kenya

Reports & Research
January, 2014
Kenya
Indigenous & Community Land Rights
Land & Food Security
food security
land access
Constrained access to land is increasingly recognized as a problem impeding rural household welfare in densely populated areas of Africa. This study utilizes household and plot level data from rural Kenya to explore the linkage between land access and food security. We find that a 10% increase in operated land size would increase total cereal consumption and home produced food consumption by 0.8% and 2.0%, respectively. We also find that land rental is the dominant mechanism that poor rural farmers use to access additional land for cultivation.
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Land Access, Land Rental and Food Security: Evidence from Kenya

Reports & Research
January, 2015
Kenya, Norway, United States of America
Indigenous & Community Land Rights
Land & Food Security
food security
land
land access
land rent
Constrained access to land is increasingly recognized as a problem impeding rural household welfare in densely populated areas of Africa. This study utilizes household and parcel level data from rural Kenya to explore the linkage between land access and food security. We find that a 10% increase in operated land size would increase household total food consumption per capita, cereal consumption per capita, non-cereal consumption, and home produced food consumption by 2.6%, 2.1%, 2.7% and 5.4%, respectively.
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Equator Initiative Case Studies. Kenya. Kipsaina Cranes and Wetlands Conservation Group (Swahili)

Local sustainable development solutions for people, nature, and resilient communities

Reports & Research
December, 2006
Kenya
Indigenous & Community Land Rights
land rights
land tenure
tenure security
Local and indigenous communities across the world are advancing innovative sustainable development solutions that work for people and for nature. Few publications or case studies tell the full story of how such initiatives evolve, the breadth of their impacts, or how they change over time. Fewer still have undertaken to tell these stories with community practitioners themselves guiding the narrative. The Equator Initiative aims to fill that gap.
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Equator Initiative Case Studies. Kenya. Kipsaina Cranes and Wetlands Conservation Group (English)

Local sustainable development solutions for people, nature, and resilient communities

Reports & Research
December, 2006
Kenya
Indigenous & Community Land Rights
land rights
land tenure
tenure security
Local and indigenous communities across the world are advancing innovative sustainable development solutions that work for people and for nature. Few publications or case studies tell the full story of how such initiatives evolve, the breadth of their impacts, or how they change over time. Fewer still have undertaken to tell these stories with community practitioners themselves guiding the narrative. The Equator Initiative aims to fill that gap.
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Farmers working together to restore their degraded land and diversity production. Included in Restoring African Drylands

Reports & Research
December, 2020
Kenya, Western Africa
Forest Landscape Restoration
Indigenous & Community Land Rights
Land & Food Security
Land, Climate Change & Environment
Rangelands, Drylands & Pastoralism
drylands
food security
land restoration
smallholders
sustainable land management
As a farmer in northern Kenya, I came to understand the importance of dryland restoration. After moving to Kaijaido country in the south, I started an initiative to restore the land, increase food security and reduce poverty, supported by a grant from the East African Community with various activities supported by FAO and Yale University.
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Civil society engagement with land rights advocacy in Kenya: what roles to play? Literature review

Reports & Research
December, 2018
Kenya
Indigenous & Community Land Rights
land rights
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Food security and land governance factsheet Kenya

Reports & Research
December, 2015
Kenya
Land & Food Security
food security
land
land acquisitions
land governance
land law