abstract: 'East African pastoralists have well-developed systems of communal land

  management that have been challenged by recent demands from some

  pastoralists for land privatization. This article analyses the impact on

  household well-being of privatizing land among a community of Samburu

  pastoralists in northern Kenya. Using longitudinal data from household

  surveys conducted in 2000 and 2005, trends in wealth, income,

  stratification and livelihood strategies are analysed comparing the

  privatized community and a community where land remains communally

  managed. Results indicate few significant differences in wealth and

  income between the privatized and communal areas, although cultivation

  has become an important additional strategy in the privatized community.

  Significant levels of wealth stratification are present in both

  communities but are mitigated to some extent by mobility across wealth

  quintiles over time. Wealthy and poor groups exhibit different

  livelihood strategies with wealthier groups relying more on livestock

  trade and home consumption while poorer groups depend on wage labour and

  trade for their income. Policy implications of this analysis include the

  need for development strategies specific to different wealth groups,

  greater investment in education and infrastructure, and more attention

  to employment creation in pastoral areas.'
affiliation: 'Lesorogol, CK (Corresponding Author), Washington Univ, George Warren
  Brown Sch Social Work, Campus Box 1196,1 Brookings Dr, St Louis, MO 63130 USA.

  Washington Univ, George Warren Brown Sch Social Work, St Louis, MO 63130 USA.'
author: Lesorogol, Carolyn K.
author_list:
- family: Lesorogol
  given: Carolyn K.
da: '2023-09-28'
doi: 10.1111/j.1467-7660.2007.00481.x
files: []
issn: 0012-155X
journal: DEVELOPMENT AND CHANGE
keywords-plus: 'GROUP RANCH SUBDIVISION; PROPERTY-RIGHTS; RISK-MANAGEMENT;

  DIVERSIFICATION; INEQUALITY; MAASAILAND; LIVESTOCK; DYNAMICS; POVERTY;

  COMMONS'
language: English
month: MAR
number: '2'
number-of-cited-references: '35'
orcid-numbers: Lesorogol, Carolyn/0000-0001-8946-0289
pages: 309-331
papis_id: 64da635d078944c4496255406f7e71c7
ref: Lesorogol2008landprivatization
times-cited: '63'
title: Land privatization and pastoralist well-being in Kenya
type: Article
unique-id: WOS:000255839400006
usage-count-last-180-days: '2'
usage-count-since-2013: '39'
volume: '39'
web-of-science-categories: Development Studies
year: '2008'