Land Tenure and Biodiversity: An Exploration in the Political Ecology of Murang'a District, Kenya

Mackenzie, A. Fiona D., Human Organization

This paper situates the relationship between biodiversity and land tenure in the complex interrelationships between the local and the global. Through a case study of Murang'a District, Kenya, it explores how power is exercised through struggles to define rights to land in highly complex situations of legal plurality and how these struggles in turn interrelate with issues of land management, including biodiversity. Gender, cross-cut by class, is a deeply contested arena of social differentiation, and the outcome of struggles for land, labor, and the product of labor have significant implications for the maintenance of biodiversity.

Key words: land tenure, biodiversity, gender, …

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Publication information: Article title: Land Tenure and Biodiversity: An Exploration in the Political Ecology of Murang'a District, Kenya. Contributors: Mackenzie, A. Fiona D. - Author. Journal title: Human Organization. Volume: 62. Issue: 3 Publication date: Fall 2003. Page number: 255. © Society of Applied Anthropology Winter 2008. Provided by ProQuest LLC. All Rights Reserved.

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