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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Westlands, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Tim Wanyonyi",
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    "content": " Hon. Speaker, I beg to give notice of the following Motion: THAT, aware that land is a critical, but limited factor of production that supports human habitation and food production; noting that agriculture is Kenya’s economic mainstay; appreciating that that the Central Bank of Kenya (CBK) Monetary Policy Committee Agriculture Sector Survey 2022 estimated the contribution of the agriculture sector to the country’s Gross Domestic Product (GDP) to be 22 per cent directly and 27 per cent indirectly, through its linkages with other sectors; further appreciating that the survey showed that the sector employs over 40 per cent of the Kenya’s total population; concerned that in the Land Reform Vol.3 publication, the Kenya Land Alliance Land estimated that only 17 per cent of the country’s land mass is classified as suitable for rain-fed agriculture land while the remainder is either semi-arid or arid; further concerned that the country’s agricultural productivity has been decreasing over the years; cognisant of the fact that the decline in agricultural productivity is partly attributable to the shrinking agricultural land due to unplanned settlements that encroach on agricultural lands; further concerned that agricultural lands in rural areas are continually being subdivided into small portions for built development, and thereby, diminishing the size of land available for agriculture; noting that there is need to put in place measures for effective land use in the country in order to guarantee optimal use of agriculture; now therefore, this House resolves that the Government, through the Ministry of Lands, Public Works, Housing and Urban Development puts in place a policy framework for effective land use in rural areas by consolidating and designating zones for built development for commercial and residential developments with shared public utilities and separate zones for agricultural use in order to arrest further diminishing of agricultural land, and steady the country’s agricultural productivity."
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