Land in Africa

IELRC has made a significant contribution to the debates on land rights in East Africa, focusing on individual and community land rights, the interactions betwen wildlife protection and land rights and the links between water rights and land rights.


Books and edited books

The Gallant Academic - Essays in Honour of HWO Okoth-Ogendo
author(s):	Patricia Kameri-Mbote & Collins Odote (eds)
source:	School of Law - University of Nairobi (2017).
date:	2017
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Ours by Right: Law, Politics and Realities of Community Property in Kenya
author(s):	Patricia Kameri-Mbote, C. Odote, C. Musembi and M. Kamande
source:	Nairobi: Strathmore University Press (2013).
date:	2013
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Land Use Law for Sustainable Development
author(s):	N. Chalifour, P. Kameri-Mbote, L.H. Lye, J.R. Nolon (eds)
source:	Cambridge: Cambridge University Press
date:	2007
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Property Rights and Biodiversity Management in Kenya: The Case of Land Tenure and Wildlife
author(s):	Patricia Kameri-Mbote
source:	Nairobi: ACTS Press
date:	2002
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Selected Publications on Land in Africa

Country Report for Kenya
author(s):	Patricia Kameri-Mbote, Irene Kamunge & James Kipkerebulit Yatich
source:	in Oliver C. Ruppel & Harald Ginzky (eds), African Soil Protection Law (Baden-Baden: Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft, 2021), p. 177-294.
date:	2021
publication:	academic
	abstract	full text	2650 [KB]


Mapping out Options for Model Legislation for Sustainable Soil Management in Africa
author(s):	Harald Ginzky, Patricia Kameri-Mbote, Oliver C. Ruppel, Pamela Towela Sambo & Christopher F. Tamasang
source:	in Oliver C. Ruppel & Harald Ginzky (eds), African Soil Protection Law (Baden-Baden: Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft, 2021), p. 379-452.
date:	2021
publication:	academic
	abstract	full text	2419 [KB]


Wildlife Conservation and Community Property Rights in Kenya
author(s):	Patricia Kameri-Mbote
source:	in Patricia Kameri-Mbote et al (eds), Law \| Environment \| Africa (Baden-Baden: Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft, 2019), p. 223-45.
date:	2019
publication:	academic
	abstract	full text	1870 [KB]


Kenya Land Governance Assessment Framework
author(s):	Patricia Kameri-Mbote
source:	Nairobi: University of Nairobi (2017).
date:	2017
publication:	working paper
	abstract	full text	1358 [KB]


Community Land in EA is not a 'Primitive' Precursor of Private Ownership
author(s):	Patricia Kameri-Mbote
source:	The East African, 25-31 May 2013.
date:	2013
publication:	Newspaper
	abstract	full text	100 [KB]


I Want It and I Want It Now: Women and Land in Africa
author(s):	Patricia Kameri-Mbote
source:	2 Perspectives 6-9 (2013).
date:	2013
publication:	academic
	abstract	full text	95 [KB]


Securing the Land and Resource Rights of Pastoral Peoples in East Africa
author(s):	Patricia Kameri-Mbote
source:	17/1 Nomadic Peoples 1-4 (2013).
date:	2013
publication:	academic
	abstract	full text	67 [KB]


Securing Property Rights in Land in Kenya: Formal Versus Informal
author(s):	Joseph Kieyah & Patricia Kameri-Mbote
source:	in Christopher Adam et. al. eds, Kenya Policies for Prosperity (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010), p. 309-328.
date:	2010
publication:	academic
	abstract	full text	1471 [KB]


Righting Wrongs: Confronting Land Dispossession in Post-colonial Contexts
author(s):	Patricia Kameri-Mbote
source:	East African Law Review (2009), p. 103-124.
date:	2009
publication:	academic
	abstract	full text	110 [KB]


The Land Question in Kenya: Legal and Ethical Dimensions
author(s):	Patricia Kameri-Mbote
source:	Strathmore University and Law Africa (2009).
date:	2009
publication:	academic
	abstract	full text	190 [KB]


Trouble in Eden: How and Why Unresolved Land Issues Landed 'Peace-full Kenya' in Trouble in 2008
author(s):	Patricia Kameri-Mbote & Kithure Kindiki
source:	35 Forum for Development Studies (2008), p. 167-93
date:	2008
publication:	academic
	abstract	full text	1682 [KB]


Land Tenure, Land Use and Sustainability in Kenya: Towards Innovative Use of Property Rights in Wildlife Management
author(s):	Patricia Kameri-Mbote
source:	Working Paper 2005-4
date:	2005
publication:	working paper
	abstract	full text	465 [KB]


The Impact of International Treaties on Land and Resource Rights
author(s):	Patricia Kameri-Mbote
source:	in Munyaradzi Saruchera ed., Securing Land and Resource Rights: Pan-African Perspectives (Cape Town: Programme for Land and Agrarian Studies, 2004), p. 48
date:	2004
publication:	academic
	abstract	full text	432 [KB]