Subsistence and Commercial Land Allocation Conflict in Kakamega,Western Kenya

• 作者: John Koskey Chang’ach Mukhwana M.Duncan
• 来源期刊: 美中教育评论：B
• 学科: 教育
• 关键词: SUBSISTENCE COMMERCIAL LAND ALLOCATION CONFLICT
• 年，卷（期）: mzjypl-b_2017,（12）
• 页码范围: 541-551
• 页数: 11页
• 分类号: G4

摘要

The paper examines the perennial enmity between subsistence and commercial sugarcane production in Western Kenya,particularly in Kakamega.The paper maintains that there is an inverse relationship in the allocation of land between sugarcane and subsistence production with more land being allocated to sugarcane compared to food production.The paper analyzes land issues in Kakamega with regard to how they affect agricultural productivity.These are the various land tenure systems either supporting or discriminating against food production and various avenues of land acquisition and ownership and as a means of making land to product both sugarcane and food crops.The area’s agricultural statistics,farmer’s records,and the researcher’s physical observations were of critical essence in terms of the research methodology.The concepts of food security and production’s articulation of modes of are applied in the study.The study confirmed that indeed more land was allocated to sugarcane production than to subsistence production,which compromised food security in western Kenya.The study recommends the need to immediately reverse this land allocation situation if food security is to be attained in Kakamega.It further recommends the full implementation of the land selection criteria for the land to be put either under contracted sugarcane cultivation private sugarcane cultivation in the region.To attain this,it calls upon the government apparatus to be pro-active if the subsistence sector and subsistence sustainability is to be achieved.