Beyond Land Titling for Sustainable Management of Agricultural Land: Lessons from Ndome and Ghazi in Taita-Taveta, Kenya

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dc.contributor.authorWaswa, F.
dc.contributor.authorEggers, H.
dc.contributor.authorKutsch, T.
dc.date.accessioned2014-06-11T12:26:29Z
dc.date.available2014-06-11T12:26:29Z
dc.date.issued2002
dc.description.abstractThis paper is based on a 1996-1999 case study that was done in semi-arid Ndome and Ghazi, Taita-Taveta District, in Kenya to determine the root causes of persistent erosion damage in the area. More than 10 years after land adjudication was done in these areas, more than 70% of the farmers still operate under tenure insecurity mainly due to lack of title deeds (r = 0.94**). Contrary to conventional expectation of land development, owning of land under private property rights was motivated by the sense of belonging, wealth, power and to some degree for speculative purposes. Adoption of structural soil and water conservation measures was still well below 50%. Preference was still given to indigenous land and water management (ILWM) technologies, with adoption rates ranging from 60% to more than 90%. No evidence existed that directly linked land improvement to land titling. For sustainable land management, land titling remains a critical incentive to farmers. However it will have to be accompanied by land use policy reforms that address four main issues, thus: deliberate efforts to preserve agricultural land, equitable distribution of available land, putting as much land as possible to agricultural use, and mechanisms to enhance prevention and control of land degradation. How these objectives can be achieved within the Kenyan context is the conceptual gist of this paper.en_US
dc.identifier.citationJournal of Agriculture and Rural Development in the Tropics and Subtropics Vol 103, No 2 (2002)en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://ir-library.ku.ac.ke/handle/123456789/9920
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherKassel University Pressen_US
dc.subjectland titlingen_US
dc.subjectsustainable land managementen_US
dc.subjectpoliciesen_US
dc.subjectKenyaen_US
dc.titleBeyond Land Titling for Sustainable Management of Agricultural Land: Lessons from Ndome and Ghazi in Taita-Taveta, Kenyaen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US
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