Pilfering the Public: The Problem of Land Grabbing in Contemporary Kenya

By J. Klopp. 2000

243 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Anthropology, General Agricultural and Biological Sciences, Soil Science

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In Anthropology

1. P. Peters
2. Catherine Boone
3. Liz Alden Wily

In General Agricultural and Biological Sciences

1. P. Peters
2. Catherine Boone
3. Liz Alden Wily
4. G. Schoneveld

In Soil Science

1. P. Peters
2. Catherine Boone
3. Liz Alden Wily
4. G. Schoneveld

Citations in the corpus

• Looking back to see forward: the legal niceties of land theft in land rushes (2012, background): “Later, the facts of wilful dispossession and irregular allocations of untitled or state lands in the 1970s–1980s will be most systematically documented in Kenya (Klopp 2000 , Republic of Kenya 2004 ).”
• Land appropriation, surplus people and a battle over visions of agrarian futures in Africa (2013, background): “Alden Wily comments, ‘the facts of willful dispossession and irregular allocations of untitled or state lands in the 1970s–1980s [have been] most systematically documented in Kenya’ (2012, 765; cf. Klopp 2000), although cases from many other countries can also be found in the literature on land.”
• Slum Real Estate: The Low-Quality High-Price Puzzle in Nairobi’s Slum Rental Market and its Implications for Theory and Practice (2008, unknown): “Kenya (2007), Southall (2005), and Klopp (2000).”
• Adapting agriculture to climate change in Kenya: household strategies and determinants. (2013, unknown): “The results also indicate that the deteriorating land base of many farming households due to population growth, appropriation of lands, and the practice of subdividing farms among heirs (Klopp, 2000) is a serious constraint to adaptationdparticularly with regard to changing crop varieties, planting ”
• Land Conflict and Distributive Politics in Kenya (2012, background): “14Jacqueline Klopp (2000) and others have drawn attention to the fact that at the same time, barons of the Moi regime acquired huge Rift Valley estates.”