“…For the Kajiado District, the main land use patterns are the pastures, the agricultural land, the urban areas and the wildlife reserves. During the last 30 years land use has changed from a sparsely settled pattern, with predominance of grazing and forested lands, to a heavily settled pattern, where agricultural cultivations and urban system expand, in detriment to former land use status, and overlooking the basic land use and land management principles of the traditional Maasai societies, leading to a serious social division (Butt, 2015;Galvin et al, 2008;Knowles, 1993;Mwangi, 2005). Despite international efforts to re-establishing socio-ecological equilibrium, turbulences persist (Abbink et al, 2014), mainly due to the steady transformation of the commonly used land, into individual parcels of land and fenced areas (Butt, 2015;Mwangi, 2005;Nyariki et al, 2009).…”