- Definition of land tenure.
- Description of tenure systems.
- Descriptions of land reforms.
The following relevant questions and their answers in this topic will greatly motivate and help the user to comprehend and understand the required concepts and practices.
- State four ways by which Re-afforestation help in land reclamation
- State three objectives of land reforms that are taking place in Kenya
- State two causes of land fragmentation in Kenya since independence
- Outline the process followed in land adjudication
- State four benefits of a farmer having land title deed
- State four reasons for practicing land consolidation
- Give four advantages of communal land tenure system
- State four advantages of landlordism and tenancy
- Outline four objects of land tenure reform
- State three advantages of communal land tenure system
- List down four important details in a land title deed.
AGRICULTURAL ECONOMICS II
(LAND TENURE AND LAND REFORM)
- Four ways by which Re-afforestation help in land reclamation
- Add organic matter from falling leaves
- Recycles soil erosion
- Control soil erosion
- Improve drainage of swampy areas
Play part in hydrological cycle
- three objectives of land reforms that are taking place in Kenya
- Increase output from land
- To meet changing national and market demands
- To achieve increasing productivity of both land and labour
- Proper utilization of national land resources and arid lands
- Increases commercial farming
Increase land conservation and improvement
- two causes of land fragmentation in Kenya since independence.
– People buying pieces of land elsewhere.
– Compensation when the government takes pat of ones land for public use.
– Inheritance of land.
4 – Establishment of land ownership.
– Measurement of land size.
– Description of the land.
– Recording and mapping of the surveyed land.
– Solving objections if any.
– Submission of the maps and records to the district land office registration
- Four benefits of a farmer having land title deed
- As security to get a loan
- As security of land ownership
- Minimizes land disputes
- Acts as an encouragement to the farmer to carry out long term investment on the land
- Four reasons for practicing land consolidation are
- To save time and transport
- Make supervision of land easier and more effective
- To facilitate mechanization of farm
- To make it easy for long term investments in the farm
- To have sound farm planning
- four advantages of communal land tenure system
- Problems of landlessness does not exist
- Land cannot be easily fragmented
- The system allows free merchant of livestock
- The land is left rest for a while so s to allow pasture regeneration
- No land dispute
- four advantages of landlordism and tenancy
- Enables landlords who cannot use land to get income from tenants
- Idle land can be put into good agriculture use increasing agricultural production
- The landless c an rent land to earn a living
- Ensure equitable distribution of land as a natural resource
- It reduces land dispute since the land lord or the state control its allocation
- To achieve flexibility in farming patterns to meet changing national and market demands
- Achieve effective utilization of National land and introduction of irrigation schemes
- Encourages measures on the land and general improvement of land
- To achieve increasing productivity of both land and labour
- Encourage commercial instead of subsistence production in order to ensure meaningful self employment in rural areas
- Encourages farmers to invest more through offering security of tenure
- – Freedom to us eland by all members
– Promotes unity among members
– Promotes use of land according to general requirements of the community
- The number of the title deed
- Size of the land
- The name and identity of the owner
- Date of registration
- Type of land ownership
- Seal of the government
- Issuing officer’s signature