Land policies since independence:Two type of programme that characterized land reforms exercise that commenced in 1963 in Kenya were;1) Transfer of land from European large scale farmers to Africans.2) Land consolidation and registration in which the government purchased several farms from the Europeans and sub-divided them among African holders. In the former European farms, the government established settlement schemes as follows; 1) The Million Acre Scheme which was began in 1963 and involved settling African families on 13.5 hectares each. 2) The Harambee Scheme started in 1969, involved settling families on 16.25 hectares each.3) The Haraka Scheme where squatters were settled in small plots of land in Central, Coast, Eastern and Rift Valley Provinces.4) Shirika Scheme started in 1971 to settle the landless and unemployed on the former European lands.
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