How can ownership of and access to land drive climate-resilient economic development in Kenya's semi-arid lands?
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2014-02-20
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Pastoralists and agro-pastoralists have been greatly impacted by the transformation from communal land to private ownership. County and national land use planners can provide critical support for climate-resilient pastoralist livelihoods through appropriate low-cost interventions such as wildlife or livestock corridors. The research explored the role of land ownership in reducing climate vulnerability and enhancing climate-resilient economic development in Kenya’s semi-arid lands (SAL). As well as climate change, pastoralists and agro-pastoralists face other drivers of change, including land tenure and land-use changes, population growth, sedentarization, rapid urbanization, globalization and conflict.
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LAND USE, DRYLANDS, CLIMATE CHANGE VULNERABILITY, WILDLIFE CONSERVATION, SEMI-ARID REGIONS, PASTORALISM, PRIVATE OWNERSHIP, CATTLE, BEEF, AGRICULTURAL POLICY, KENYA, SOUTH OF SAHARA