Marcel M. E. M. Rutten (Leiden University, Leiden, The Netherlands)

Submitted:  Tues, April 26, 2011


Dr. Marcel M. E. M. Rutten
Afrika-Studiecentrum
Leiden University
P.O. Box 9555
2300 RB
Leiden
The Netherlands

phone:  +31-71-5273396
fax:    +31-71-5273344
e-mail: rutten@ascleiden.nl


Afrika-Studiecentrum Web site: http://www.ascleiden.nl



Dr. Marcel Rutten's research activities concentrate on livelihood systems
and natural resource management, notably: individualization of
landownership, co-management of wildlife sanctuaries, food security and
poverty alleviation. Currently three research programmes are being carried 
out: conflicts over land; famine and drought coping strategies; and 
sustainable development of low-cost water sources (shallow wells).


Publications -- Selected Books and Articles:

Edited with A.H.M. Leliveld and D.W.J. Foeken 
Inside poverty and development in Africa : critical reflections on 
pro-poor policies.  Leiden ; Boston: Brill, African Dynamics ; 
vol. 7, 2008.

Edited with A. Mazrui and F. Grignon
Out for the count : the 1997 general elections and prospects for 
democracy in Kenya.  Kampala: Fountain Publishers, 2001.

"Explanatory frameworks for non-sustainable natural resource management
practices: a critique of the perception rationale." In: Kebeet von Benda
Beckman and Harold W. Finkler (eds.) Papers of the XIth International
Congress Folk Law and Legal Pluralism: Societies in Transformation, hosted
by the Institute of Ethnology and Anthropology, Russian Academy of Sciences
Moscow, Russia. August 18-22 1997, pp 237-258, April 1999.

Kenya general elections 1997 - Implementing a new model for international
election observation in Africa. Report submitted to Royal Netherlands
Embassy - Nairobi, April 1998.

"Land reform in Africa: lessons from Kenya." In: A. van Naerssen, M. Rutten
and E. Zoomers (eds.) The Diversity of Development, pp 71-83, Assen : Van
Gorcum, 1997.

Selling wealth to buy poverty : the process of the individualization 
of landownership among the Maasai pastoralists of Kajiado district, Kenya, 
1890-1990.  Saarbrücken: Breitenbach, Nijmegen studies in 
development and cultural change 10, 1992.