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Debts and trespasses: land, mortgages, and the ancestors in western Kenya
Africa • 62 (3) • Published In 1992 • Pages: 357-388
By: Shipton, Parker MacDonald.
Abstract
This article discusses the experiences of smallholder farmers in Luoland, western Kenya, with government provided farm credit schemes. It shows that farm credit schemes wrongly assume that 'to adopt new crops and inputs, small-scale farmers need financial loans, and that private land titles help them to borrow by providing a form of collateral for mortgages.' It argues that Luo land tenure system, which emphasized the sacredness and inalienability of lineage land rights, prove the inappropriateness of this theory.
- HRAF PubDate
- 2010
- Region
- Africa
- Sub Region
- Eastern Africa
- Document Type
- article
- Evaluation
- Creator Type
- Anthropologist
- Document Rating
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- Analyst
- Teferi Abate Adem; 2009
- Field Date
- 1980-1991
- Coverage Date
- 1950-1992
- Coverage Place
- Luoland, Kenya
- Notes
- Parker Shipton
- Includes bibliographical references ( p. 384-386)
- LCCN
- 29010790
- LCSH
- Luo (Kenyan and Tanzanian people)