| dc.description.abstract | The purpose of this study was to assess the impact of poverty on
land use in Palam Sub-County. It established the factors leading
to poverty, found out specific ways in which factors that underlie
poverty relate to land use in Palam Sub-county and established
strategies being undertaken by different stakeholders to address
the negative impacts of poverty on land use in Palam Sub-county.
Case study as a methodological research design using both
quantitative and qualitative approaches of data processing,
collection, presentation and analysis were used by the researcher.
It found out Climate Change, Laziness/negligence, Insecurity,
Unemployment, Poor Farming methods, Alcoholism and Little
Government Support. Illiteracy, Sickness, Poor road networks and
Poor land use were other factors leading to poverty in Palam Sub county.
Ways in Which Factors that Underlie Poverty Relate to Land Use
were revealed by this study to be: Land Conflicts, Insecurity,
Poor farming methods, Climate Change, Sale of land, deforestation,
Unemployment, Soil Exhaustion and Loan security.
On the other hand, strategies undertaken by the stakeholders to
address negative impacts of poverty on land use according to the
study were: Community Sensitizations, Settling land conflicts,
Land Demarcations, Community Mobilization, educating children and
Provision of trees. These were being undertaken by several
stakeholders like: Clan Leaders, Area Land Committee members, NGOs
and CBOs, SAS, Parish Chiefs, Politicians, the Police, Neighbors
and Forestry Departments.
The study concluded that, government had tried to introduce some
programs like Poverty eradication plan (PEAP), National
Development plan (NDP)Peace Recovery and Development Plan (PRDP)
frame work to guide and facilitate this process the process of
poverty alleviation. It however noted that, the implementation
design could not fully alleviate poverty. It therefore affirmed
that, poverty can be eradicated fully, but requires more efforts
from government, other stakeholders and the community themselves | en_US |
