Land use policy in Kenya – experiences from Taita Taveta district

Land has always been the most important natural resource for humans as well as for all the flora and fauna that it keeps alive. In Kenya land is naturally vulnerable due to the arid climate and that is why it cannot hold all the pressure that men push on it in their daily actions. The environment is in constant conflict with human society when the interests of them both cannot be achieved at the same time. But the suffering of land means the suffering of men too because in the end man is highly dependent on land and its strength. Thus, what would be a more interesting target of research for a young geographer than to examine the land itself and the processes it is involved in within human society? This article opens up the questions that are presented in the coming Master’s thesis with the same title and thus will give some advance information about the whole study the thesis being still in preparation. The study here concentrates on the terms of land use policy – what is land use policy made up and what is the framework of it