moreover the food and agricultural organization of the united nations fao warns that while land titling programmes have become popular with many international agencies and beneficiaries attempts to formalize land titling and registration can have unintended consequences forwomenincludingthe loss of secondary land rights under customary law fao for example when land registration programmes were first introduced in kenya the maledominated adjudication committees typically registered land to the male head of household but failed to record women s secondary rights to the land this had the unintended effect of extinguishing those rights altogether fao nd the kenyan constitution as amended in prohibited discrimination based on gender