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Centering the Margins: Dispossession, Real Estate Speculation and the Politics of Place-Making in Peri-Urban Kisumu, Kenya
(TRIOITERATIVA.COM.BR, 2012)
Long considered marginal in the production of knowledge on African urbanism, the peri-urban zone is fast becoming one of the most important sites of urban space production in rapidly transforming African cities. While ...
Can Community Land Trusts Enhance Urban Land Governance in Kenya?
(N-AERUS, 2012)
The struggle for land constitutes a major challenge in urban governance in Kenya today. The sheer
pace of the country’s urbanization far outstrips the ability of conventional state and market
mechanisms to accommodate ...
Community-Based Land Tenure in Urban Kenya: Constructing a ‘new’ Property for the Poor?
(TRIOITERATIVA.COM.BR, 2012)
Informal housing remains a big challenge in cities of the global South, particularly among low-income households unable to access land and housing through the formal state and/or market mechanisms. While public resources ...
State-Vs. Community-Led Land Tenure Regularization in Tanzania
(Lap Lambert Academic Publ, 2012)
The importance of security and certainty of land tenure among the urban poor cannot be overemphasised. A key justification for it is that tenure security provides incentives for investment in land and hence an impetus for ...
The Status of Public Transportation in unplanned suburbs of Kisumu Municipality, Kenya
(International Journal of Arts and Commerce, 2012)
The paper examined public transportation in three unplanned suburbs of Kisumu
Municipality namely Nyamasaria, Otonglo and Mamboleo based on Mixed Method
Approach. Data was collected from both secondary and primary sources. ...
Dynamics of street vending phenomenon in the Kisumu Municipality, Kenya
(International Journal of Arts and Commerce, 2012)
Street vending is the sub-sector of informal businesses that operate in urban spaces meant for other uses. It was believed that street vending would be absorbed by modern sector with time but instead it has grown to providing ...
Dynamics of street vending phenomenon in the Kisumu Municipality, Kenya
(International Journal of Arts and commerce, 2012)
Street vending is the sub-sector of informal businesses that operate in urban spaces meant for other uses. It was
believed that street vending would be absorbed by modern sector with time but instead it has grown to
providing ...
Village Baseline Study: Site Analysis Report for Yabello–Borana, Ethiopia
(CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security (CCAFS), 2012)
The village baseline of Denbela Saden village in the CCAFS benchmark site of Yabello in Ethiopia
took place from 10th to 12th August 2011. Focus group discussions were conducted separately for men
and women.
Denbela ...
Village Baseline Study: Site Analysis Report for Usambara–Lushoto, Tanzania (TZ0105)
(CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security (CCAFS), 2012)
The village baseline study of Kwang’wenda village in the CCAFS benchmark Lushoto site, Tanzania
took place from April 27 to 29, 2011. Focus group discussions were conducted separately for men and
women.
Population growth ...
Village Baseline Study: Site Analysis Report for Albertine Rift–Hoima, Uganda
(CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security (CCAFS), 2012)
The village baseline study of Kibaire village in the CCAFS benchmark site Hoima in Uganda took
place from 13 to 16 July 2011. Forests are exploited at unsustainable levels in Kibaire but
deforestation does not appear to ...