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Land rights battle inches Kenyan rice farmers closer to title deeds

Land rights battle inches Kenyan rice farmers closer to title deeds

KAGONDU NJAGI WHEN Wilson Kariuki's three younger children finish high school, the Kenyan rice farmer will not have to worry about paying to send them to a university far from home, as he did with his two eldest. Instead, they can attend a new university being built in their home village of Ngurubani, central Kenya, on 100 acres (40 hectares) that the farmers on the Mwea Irrigation Scheme now own after winning a case against the county government in April. The rice farmers' victory is a sign of the rising awareness of land rights that is driving small-scale farmers around…
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