I’m a social-economic researcher from Kenya, currently a Ph.D. fellow at the University of Nairobi and the University of Copenhagen within the Rights and Resilience in Kenya Project, a collaboration between Danish and Kenyan researchers. My research interests include land reforms, pastoralist resilience, governance, and the inclusion of minorities and marginalized people. My Ph.D. research investigates what happens to pastoralists’ access to land when community land is formalized and land governance decentralized.

Some of my published work includes:

Rahma Hassan, Iben Nathan, and Karuti Kanyinga (2022). Will community rights secure pastoralists’ access to land? The Community Land Act in Kenya and its implications for Samburu pastoralists. Journal of Peasant Studies. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/03066150.2022.2119847

Maja Dahl Jeppensen and Rahma Hassan (2022). Private Property and Social Capital: Dynamics of Exclusion and Sharing in the Subdivided Pastoral Rangelands of Kajiado, Kenya. Society & Natural Resources. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/08941920.2022.2026542

Rahma Hassan, Leah Kenny, and Mazeda Hossain (2021). Reproductive Health Rights, Security, Climate Justice, and Gender: Intersecting issues among nomadic pastoralists in Kenya. The London School of Economics and Political Science. Link: https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/globalhealth/2021/08/03/reproductive-health-rights-security-climate-justice-and-gender-intersecting-issues-among-nomadic-pastoralists-in-kenya/