Land tenure and biodiversity: An exploration in the political ecology of Murang'a District, Kenya

From: Human Organization | Date: October 1, 2003| Author: Mackenzie, A Fiona D | Copyright information

This paper situates the relationship between biodiversity and land tenure in the complex interrelationships between the local and the global. Through a case study of Murang'a District, Kenya, it explores how power is exercised through struggles to define rights to land in highly complex situations of legal plurality and how these struggles in turn interrelate with issues of land management, including biodiversity. Gender, cross-cut by class, is a deeply contested arena of social differentiati...

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