No its not but Its an essential issue in Kenya
And come to think Yes
Actually YES it will end poverty provided they are also educated ...
Mombasa is 200km2
Ie 107,000 acres or there about...
Mombasa has 2mn people
So say Some two white Farmers in Laikipia or the Olpejeta was Reinstated to squatters
Olpejeta is 238,000acres
Or there about
It will end all squatter issues in Kenya
Wakifungua polytechnics za Agric in this area na wawape subsidies za kuanzisha mashamba kilimo bas those are 4mn rich kenyans
Majority of the btw are from central kenya....
Na kwakupewa mashamba sisemi wapewe shamba
Wajengewe manyumba alafu hzo shamba ziwekwe under a management system controlled by them for profits kama SA wanavyo Fanya
Poor Black south africans were given 3.4mn acres of land by the government to manage of this human settlement is only at 8% of the total land .....i believe Kenya will go far under this system
Provided they are educated.....
U then admit that just providing these pipo land without some proper training would be an exercise in futility, it would in fact plunge this country into even greater economic challenges than the situation now. Mugabe did it, he was later to admit that it was a blunder.
This agitation for equal land distribution, it may sounds very attractive. But where is the empirical evidence to demonstrate that this would actually end the cycle of poverty in this country?
Look at our small- scale farmers, are they finding life easier than the landless hotel or kinyozi owners in Nairobi? The farm hands at the Ol Pajetas or Kakuzis etc in fact earn more reasonable incomes than most land owning, peasant farmerd using rudimentary tools to till their lands at some village called Kagumayo.
Most of these small land owners are not leading more comfortable living standards than their landless counteromparts. Let us face it, agriculture does not pay that much these days, esp if u are a small- scale farmer, depending on the "God" supplied water from the skies. Almost every year, the majority of these farmers' harvests simply do not commensurate the amount of money and efforts they put in their farming activities, esp these days with the short supply of rainfall.
We need more moneyed investor, both local and foreign to utilize these lands in greater scale, and employ more of tgese people. They must start other income genersting ventures apart from farming.
Let more moneyed people buy out parts of these idle lands from these big land owners, and put up some income generating activities on them. It would be better for the economy, and the overall living standards of the pipo.
On their own(the squarters) they simply cant. Not even the politechnics will unleash the skill from all these people, let us not kid ourselves.
