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Title: | Some Issues in the Evolution, Organization and Operation of Group Ranches in Kenya |
Author: | Davis, Robert K. |
Year: | 1971 |
Periodical: | East African Journal of Rural Development |
Volume: | 4 |
Issue: | 1 |
Pages: | 22-33 |
Language: | English |
Geographic term: | Kenya |
Subjects: | large farms Agriculture, Natural Resources and the Environment Development and Technology |
Abstract: | The Government has started with a land adjudication program in Masailand, which intends to turn tribal lands from common property into private property to be held by individuals or groups. An average ranch consists of 47.500 acres of land to be owned by one hundred families. A small group of representatives, which will act as a council of elders, has been commissioned to adopt a legal constitution and to elect a group committee. The committee is allocated management responsibilities, such as supplying of technical and commercial information, raising of credits, and control of the group's money. Although the committee has control over the rights of grazing, tillage, and water, certain property rights, for instance residence rights, are given to individuals. The whole object in doing this is to abolish individual ranching, which involves hitherto an unrestricted land market, of which many landless farmers are excluded. Notes, ref. |