This first-ever documentary video from the Rights and Resources Initiative was made under the Skoll Foundation’s Africa Solutions Story Telling Project. The video is just under 5 minutes long and features the case ...

This thematic portfolio available only online from the Land Portal (and not directly downloadable) provides a global overview, with a strong focus on African countries, of key land issues for pastoralists. There is ...

This report is the result of a collaborative study by the Kenyan National Land Commission and Namati Kenya. The study was conducted to track progress on the implementation of the landmark 2016 Community Land Act, ...

This article looks at how Maasai pastoralists are diversifying into different livestock and non-livestock responses to the fragmentation of traditional rangelands, climate stress, and restricted mobility. ...

The Maasai community of Musul have lived on the same land in Laikipia county for generations. It is their source of food and water, the heart of their culture and beliefs and their ancestral home. But until recently ...

A review of a book on land in Kenya published in 2020 by Boydell and Brewer Ltd. The reviewer offers a detailed analysis and discussion of the 8 chapters of this 224-page book. The chapters are entitled: ...

On 27 April 2021 President Kenyatta launched the National Land Information Management System (NLIMS), the culmination of years of digitisation of chaotic land records. It is expected to ease title transfers and ...

Kenya’s Murang’a county is home to Kakuzi, the food producer and exporter that occupies some 15,904 ha. Land ownership in this fertile area is out of reach for many who consider it their ancestral home. ...

This report responds to heightened concerns over rising levels of farmer-herder conflict across a wide band of semi-arid Africa. It assesses the quantitative evidence behind this general impression and reviews the ...

CIFOR undertook a review of Kenya’s legal framework to understand whether legal provisions were sufficient to secure community land and forest rights. Asks how adequate Kenya’s legal framework was in protecting ...