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Title: Land reform and poverty incidence in Kenya


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Land reform and poverty incidence in Kenya
  • Discussant Dr Trudy Owens
  • University of Nottingham

2
Summary of paper
  • Land reform is central to Kenyas development
  • Importance of agricultural sector employs 70 of
    labour force
  • Yet agricultural production declining due to
    inefficient land use
  • Absolute poverty highest in rural areas
  • Unlikely to meet millennium goal of reducing
    poverty

3
Background on land reform
  • Colonial land reform
  • Post independence land reform
  • Settlement schemes
  • Land control
  • Group ranches

4
Literature on the impact of land reform
  • Number of studies have found no effect of land
    reform on productivity Migot-Adholla et al.,
    Place et al., Carter et al.,Picknery and Kimuyu,
    Besley
  • Only 2 references that suggest there may be an
    impact Miceli, Sirmans and Kieyah, Alston et al.

5
Empirical results
  • Key findings
  • higher ownership of land with a title deed
    correlated with lower poverty levels in a
    district
  • higher ownership of land with a title deed
    correlated with higher labour earnings in a
    district

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Comment
  • Concern about omitted variable bias is it
    possible to include a variable for
    non-agricultural productivity?
  • Is it possible to differentiate land tenure
    types?
  • Sample size is it possible to use a household
    survey? See Reyes (2002)
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