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This study concerns land settlement m Coast Provmce, Kenya, that occurred between 1960-1970 and the effects on later household income, food production and nutnüon Household surveys were conducted among tenants m different settlement schemes and among the population m rural comparison locations In all aspects studied, the settlement tenants were better off than the rural population Further analysis indicated that the nutntional improvements can only partly be attnbuted to mcreases m food production and agncultural income Income from employment was also higher than that of the rural companson population and this must also have contnbuted to the improvements Households with large farms generally reahzed larger mcomes but also had much larger families and food consumption, and nutntional status of young children was lower among these households It is concluded that the land distnbution had a positive influence on household income and nutntional conditions The relation of farm size and household well-being, however, was not straightforward, bemg confounded by differences in family size and by the frequency of off-farm employment The fact that the households with the highest mcomes did not show the most favourable nutntional conditions demonstrates, agam, the need to mclude social and nutntional indicators in the evaluation of rural development projects

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