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    "id": 834394,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Lungalunga, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Khatib Mwashetani",
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        "legal_name": "Khatib Abdallah Mwashetani",
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    "content": " Hon. Speaker, I beg to move the following Motion: THAT, this House notes the Report of the Delegation of the Departmental Committee on Lands to the 2018 Annual Wold Bank Conference on Land and Poverty held in Washington, DC, United States of America, from 19th to 23rd March 2018, laid on the Table of the House on Thursday, 7th June 2018. The World Bank Conference on Land and Poverty is an annual event organised by the World Bank Development Economic Research Group. It normally attracts several countries, almost 128 in the world. This august House was represented by Members of the Departmental Committee on Lands of which I was the leader of the delegation. We were with Hon. Caleb Kositany, Hon. Catherine Waruguru and Hon. Teddy Mwambire. The Committee wishes to register its appreciation to the offices of the Speaker and Clerk of the National Assembly for the support accorded to it while undertaking this important activity. The conference was conducted in different ways through sessions and round-tables comprising selected papers, debates on important innovations and policy issues. There were several speakers, some of them researchers. We had one researcher from Kenya, Prof. Swazuri, who did a presentation touching on different land issues, most of them related to the ones we face in Kenya. Amongst the issues which were discussed were land administration systems that rarely improve tenure security for the poor. This is an issue that we know as Kenyans that there is room for improvement. The ability to control and manage land use and how to dispose of its products and engage in transaction is important. Participants deliberated upon the benefits and challenges of large scale agricultural investments. There were several general values of land management, amongst them economic benefits such as increase in income, improved economic growth and export of earnings and additional food crops for local consumption and new sources of Government revenue from land leases. We further noted that the risks associated with commercial land investment are not limited to those endured by affected communities, but there was mounting evidence across Africa demonstrating that land acquisition and tenure related risks can threaten viability of commercial land investment for investors. We shared so many practices that have mostly been influenced by globalisation. We know for sure that if we implement some of the areas that we covered, we are going to easen management of land. Technology which encompasses digitisation of land management is helping The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposes only. Acertified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
}