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Affiliation Leiden University, Leiden, The Netherlands

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Mailing Address Afrika-Studiecentrum Leiden University P.O. Box 9555 2300 RB Leiden The Netherlands

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Research Interests Research activities concentrate on livelihood systems and natural resource management, notably: individualization of landownership, co-management of wildlife sanctuaries, food security and poverty alleviation. Currently three research programmes are being carried out: conflicts over land; famine and drought coping strategies; and sustainable development of low-cost water sources (shallow wells).

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Publications * Edited with A.H.M. Leliveld and D.W.J. Foeken Inside poverty and development in Africa : critical reflections on pro-poor policies. Leiden ; Boston: Brill, African Dynamics ; vol. 7, 2008. Edited with A. Mazrui and F. Grignon Out for the count : the 1997 general elections and prospects for democracy in Kenya. Kampala: Fountain Publishers, 2001. "Explanatory frameworks for non-sustainable natural resource management practices: a critique of the perception rationale." In: Kebeet von Benda Beckman and Harold W. Finkler (eds.) Papers of the XIth International Congress Folk Law and Legal Pluralism: Societies in Transformation, hosted by the Institute of Ethnology and Anthropology, Russian Academy of Sciences Moscow, Russia. August 18-22 1997, pp 237-258, April 1999. Kenya general elections 1997 - Implementing a new model for international election observation in Africa. Report submitted to Royal Netherlands Embassy - Nairobi, April 1998. "Land reform in Africa: lessons from Kenya." In: A. van Naerssen, M. Rutten and E. Zoomers (eds.) The Diversity of Development, pp 71-83, Assen : Van Gorcum, 1997. Selling wealth to buy poverty : the process of the individualization of landownership among the Maasai pastoralists of Kajiado district, Kenya, 1890-1990. Saarbrücken: Breitenbach, Nijmegen studies in development and cultural change 10, 1992.

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