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While favourable laws have been passed in recent years to protect women’s rights to own, use and manage land in Kenya, deeply ingrained patriarchal norms and a lack of awareness of those rights mean that women are often still evicted from their land if their husbands die or leave.
The support on land tenure security that local communities receive from state actors does not benefit men and women equally. Women also face difficulties related to claiming inherited land, unlawful omission from property titles, denial of widows' tenure rights and encroachment on women´s land. For these reasons, implementation of Kenya’s progressive land laws remains woefully behind.
Women suffer disproportionately from a broader trend of land grabbing in Kenya, often related to government evictions for development or fortress conservation.
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