Marcel M. E. M. Rutten

Region of Interest	Africa
Primary Country of Residence	Netherlands
Title	Ph.D
Affiliation	Leiden University, Leiden, The Netherlands
Email	rutten@ascleiden.nl
Mailing Address	Afrika-Studiecentrum Leiden University P.O. Box 9555 2300 RB Leiden The Netherlands
Phone/Fax Number(s)	phone: +31-71-5273396 fax: +31-71-5273344
Websites	http://www.ascleiden.nl
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).
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.
Keywords	natural resource ; sustainable development ; poverty ; land conflicts ; famine ; drought ; ...