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Unbundling water and land rights in Kilifi County, Kenya: a gender perspective
| Content Provider | Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research (CGIAR) |
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| Author | Hillesland, Marya Doss, Cheryl R. Mutua, Mercy Guettou Djurfeldt, Nadia Nchanji, Eileen Twyman, Jennifer Korzenevica, Marina |
| Spatial Coverage | Kenya [KE] |
| Description | Feminist scholars and activists have drawn attention to the importance of women’s land rights, and studies focused on irrigation have explored the gendered relationships between land and water rights. Yet little of this work has focused on the relationship between land and water rights for domestic and productive purposesmore broadly.Within rural communities, women andmen have dierent rights to both land and water.We explore these interconnected relationships using community profiles, focus group discussions, and in-depth interviews from two communities as well as survey data collected from multiple adult members of rural households in Kilifi County, Kenya. Using a bundle of rights framework, we find that few individuals hold the complete bundle of rights over water, and the extent to which the rights are acknowledged by others and enforceable varies by the land-water tenure system. The full bundle of rights to water ismost likely to be complete and most robust for men who have private water points on household land they hold. Even then, other people may assert claims to water at the water point, although these claims may involve negotiation or payment. Many water rights across the land-tenure systems are shared with others rather than being held by one individual. As such, the ability to negotiate water access is particularly important. The duration of the rights, or the length of time for which the rights are held, is embedded in social relations and exchange, particularly on others’ household land. Women more than men seem to maintain a complicated set of social networks that allow them to negotiate for water from other women who manage the water transactions. The process of negotiation needs to be re-articulated each time. Thus, the duration of these rights to water depends on the ongoing relationships. |
| Sponsorship | CGIAR Trust Fund |
| Related Links | https://cgspace.cgiar.org/items/02488bd0-ed0c-42fa-8dea-aec765d29710 |
| File Format | |
| ISSN | 26732726 |
| DOI | 10.3389/fhumd.2023.1210065 |
| Journal | Frontiers in Human Dynamics |
| Volume Number | 5 |
| Language | English |
| Publisher | Frontiers Media |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Rights License | CC-BY-4.0 |
| Subject Keyword | Gender Land Rights Land Tenure Gender Analysis Water Rights Legal Pluralism Climate Change Food Systems Gender AND Equity Water |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
| Subject | Agronomy and Crop Science Food Science Plant Science |
