Titlebook: Socioeconomic Change and Land Use in Africa; The Transformation o Esther Mwangi Book 2007 Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Nature America

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ings 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.978-1-137-06659-6

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The Policy Problem: Group Ranch Subdivision in Semiarid Maasailand,s been a defining characteristic of agrarian development in many parts of sub-Saharan Africa (Okoth-Ogendo, 1993). Many African governments working closely with international development agencies anticipated that individual, private ownership would create incentives that would lead to increased agri

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Background to Kajiado District, Kenya,nd property relations were transformed.. Maps and tables illustrate the various biophysical and social attributes of the district, while the sociocultural and political organization of the Maasai is described.

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,The Puzzle of “Perverse” Property Rights,geneity, the decision to subdivide is puzzling. Subdivision and fragmentation impedes mobility, which is crucial for survival under such variable conditions if livestock is to remain the core economic activity. This chapter addresses the puzzle of why individual group ranch members supported the sub

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Subdividing the Group Ranch: Allocating Land and Distributing Wealth,relative factor scarcities as well as by their desire to reduce losses inherent in the status quo as they anticipated gains in the new arrangement. Distributional concerns were at the core of individuals’ investing resources in transforming property rights.

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The Subdivided Group Ranch: Exploring Ecological Implications,ls as has happened in the four group ranches in this study. The specific question that it addresses is whether these different land use and management regimes (i.e., reaggregation versus non-reaggregated) significantly affect vegetation cover within the study areas, after the influence of dominant e

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,The Transformation of Property Rights to Land in Kenya’s Maasailand,cise explication of the way in which change occurs or considerations of whether such change is reversible. Beyond highlighting the factors pressing toward change and the outcomes of a major change in property rights structure, this study of property rights transformation in Kajiado district illustrates the internal processes of change.