Socioeconomic Change and Land Use in Africa: The Transformation of Property Rights in Maasailand

Mwangi, E.

This study investigates how and why a group ranch members in Kajiado District, Kenya, supported the subdivision of their collective landholdings into individual, titled units, and what outcomes resulted in this transition to individual rights. Viewed over a longer time scale, the author finds that politics is at the core of institutional change.

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Published by: Palgrave Macmillan

Publication Date: 2007-09-25

Format: Hardcover

ISBN-13: 9781403980052

DOI: 10.1007/978-1-137-06659-6

Dimensions: 216cm x140cm

Pages: 219