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In Kenya, land grabbing can be examined by looking at three critical eons through which land governance has evolved. There is the first epoch that was characterised by colonial acquisition of land to establish colonial rule and provide land for incoming settlers among other reasons. Secondly, there is the post-colonial epoch that was characterised by land grabs orchestrated by the new political elites who were keen on retaining power upon independence. Thirdly, and most recently, the phenomenon of land grabbing has assumed a new face: a global face with graver consequences on communities and their livelihoods than ever before. The new form of land grabbing involves foreign multinationals and governments acquiring land in developing countries for a multitude of reasons, inter alia, mining, huge infrastructural projects, oil exploration and large-scale irrigation. This new phenomenon of land grabbing and its impact on tenure security and livelihoods amongst communities is examined here.

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The Constitution of Kenya, 2010, envisions a prominent role for alternative dispute resolution, including traditional dispute resolution mechanisms. This is in addition to other legislative frameworks which provide for non-formal methods of dispute resolution. A thesis is made that formal forums such as litigation through courts of law have various disadvantages including complexity, high costs, and technical procedures, delays, amongst others, which make a strong case for the usually convenient and available ADR mechanisms. Put to good use, these mechanisms have potential to spur economic development through enhanced access to justice and the rule of law. The authors, indeed, argue that there is a golden thread that weaves across the themes of rule of law, human rights and access to justice and development.

The current business environment has become very dynamic and this comes with threats and opportunities. Some of the factors that pose challenge in this environment are new entrants, loss of competitive advantage or rapid change of technology. In Kenya, SME suffer the same fate despite the critical role they play in the country. Most of the youth business startups fail at their third year and very few enterprises have grown into large formal organizations. To survive under this dynamic environment, entrepreneurial networking becomes an important strategy that can be adopted by organizations. The objective of this study was thus trying to examine influence of entrepreneurial networking strategic renewal on performance of youth owned SMEs. The specific objectives were membership of social network, professional networks, business networks and social networks and their influence on SMEs performance. The research design adopted was descriptive cross-sectional survey. The study targeted youth owned agro-processing SMEs registered by Ministry of Trade and Industry from four County Governments namely, Nyeri, Kirinyanga, Murang’a and Nyandarua. The population that constituted sampling frame was 287 youth owned enterprises. Quantitative data was collected by use of structured questionnaire. The overall model study was R Square= 0.092, meaning that Entrepreneurial Networking Strategies explained 9.2% of the variation on SMEs performance. The study coefficients indicated that holding all other factors constant, changing Entrepreneurial Networking strategies by one unit would result to a 0.324 change in Performance of Youth Owned Agro-processing SMEs. The value of t is 6.095, which was >2 and p-value of 0.000 which implied that there was statistically significant influence of Entrepreneurial Networking Strategies on performance. The study concluded that entrepreneurship networking influences performance of the youth owned agro-processing SMEs in Kenya. This study recommends there is need for the SMEs to further establish networks outside their business cycle.