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Book Upgrading Security of Tenure for the Peri urban Poor in Africa

Download or read book Upgrading Security of Tenure for the Peri urban Poor in Africa written by Emmanuel Offei Akrofi and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Demystifying the Mystery of Capital

Download or read book Demystifying the Mystery of Capital written by Robert Home and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-03-04 with total page 173 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 2004. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Book Evaluation of Innovative Land Tools in Sub Saharan Africa

Download or read book Evaluation of Innovative Land Tools in Sub Saharan Africa written by P. van Asperen and published by IOS Press. This book was released on 2014-09-17 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sub-Saharan Africa is urbanizing rapidly, but most countries lack appropriate tools to manage their urban growth. This creates both risks and opportunities for prospective land holders, resulting in a tangle of insecure land rights and claims under multiple tenure systems. Recently, innovative land tools have been proposed and implemented to formalize land tenure. It is envisaged that tenure security for land holders will increase and in turn contribute to poverty reduction. This study evaluates such tools in three peri-urban areas in Lusaka (Zambia), Oshakati (Namibia) and Gaborone (Botswana), with a focus on the perspective of the land holders. The author concludes that the tools are to some extent pro-poor, and makes recommendations for further improvements. These innovative land tools are also considered a necessary addition to conventional and administration tools. This study makes valuable reading for academics, policy makers and practitioners within the land administration domain and related disciplines.

Book Demystifying the Mystery of Capital

Download or read book Demystifying the Mystery of Capital written by Robert Home and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-03-04 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is an original empirical and theoretical study of the use of law to secure land tenure in the face of poverty, urban and peri-urban growth and changing social structures.

Book Secure Land Rights for All

Download or read book Secure Land Rights for All written by and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Analytical Perspective of Pro poor Slum Upgrading Frameworks

Download or read book Analytical Perspective of Pro poor Slum Upgrading Frameworks written by and published by UN-HABITAT. This book was released on 2006 with total page 79 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Land Delivery Systems in West African Cities

Download or read book Land Delivery Systems in West African Cities written by Alain Durand-Lasserve and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 2015-04-02 with total page 133 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book proposes a new approach for a systemic and dynamic analysis of urban and peri-urban land markets in West Africa and applies it to Bamako, Mali. Based on a description of 'land delivery' processes, it sheds light on the challenges faced by the urban poor in accessing secure land.

Book Handbook on Best Practices  Security of Tenure  and Access to Land   Implementation of the Habitat Agenda

Download or read book Handbook on Best Practices Security of Tenure and Access to Land Implementation of the Habitat Agenda written by Clarissa Augustinus and published by UN-HABITAT. This book was released on 2003 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Peri Urban Developments and Processes in Africa with Special Reference to Zimbabwe

Download or read book Peri Urban Developments and Processes in Africa with Special Reference to Zimbabwe written by Innocent Chirisa and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-05-23 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book focuses on peri-urban development processes in Africa, with special emphasis on Zimbabwe. The debates included highlight a number of issues in the peri-urban context, such as access to water, appropriate technologies and land management, political economy in the peri-urban space, peri-urban agriculture, and place marketing in peri-urban development, among others. The debates raised by the authors in this book revolve around locating the peri-urban space within the context of sustainability, in which key issues are addressed. The book essentially examines peri-urban development processes from various angles in an effort to understand how peri-urban areas develop, function, and how their residents survive. Per-urban dwellers currently face numerous challenges, including land tenure insecurity, poor infrastructure and services, land use conflicts, stringent planning law and land use planning regulations. This work seeks to address the “knowledge gap” on peri-urban development processes in Africa, and is also intended to inform urban policy practice in the African Cities and beyond. Offering policy makers valuable insights on the peri-urban space, it provides guidance for decision-making in the contexts of service delivery, land management, housing, new town development and place marketing, among others.

Book Ibadan Region

Download or read book Ibadan Region written by M. O. Filani and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Housing Finance Strategies of Informal Settlement Dwellers

Download or read book Housing Finance Strategies of Informal Settlement Dwellers written by Christiane Rudic and published by LIT Verlag Münster. This book was released on 2016 with total page 475 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Access to housing and to housing finance remains a challenge in African cities. This study examines the housing finance strategies of informal settlement dwellers in Dar es Salaam (Tanzania) and identifies a range of factors that enable or constrain actors to make investments in housing. Based on ethnographic, qualitative and quantitative research, this study provides detailed insights into individual housing biographies, and explains why some actors invest in housing, while others do not. It finally challenges widely accepted development concepts like the provision of housing microfinance, land regularisation, infrastructure upgrading and eviction and argues for a deeper understanding of everyday lives in order to improve housing conditions. Christiane Rudic studied Geography with particular focus on urban development and housing at Bayreuth University. Dissertation. (Series: Contributions to African Research / Beitrage zur Afrikaforschung, Vol. 68) [Subject: Sociology, African Studies, Urban Development]

Book Situation Analysis of Informal Settlements in Kisumu

Download or read book Situation Analysis of Informal Settlements in Kisumu written by Kenya Slum Upgrading Programme and published by UN-HABITAT. This book was released on 2005 with total page 103 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Land Policies for Growth and Poverty Reduction

Download or read book Land Policies for Growth and Poverty Reduction written by Klaus W. Deininger and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 2003 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book 2017 Global Food Policy Report

Download or read book 2017 Global Food Policy Report written by International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) and published by Intl Food Policy Res Inst. This book was released on 2017-03-23 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: IFPRI’s flagship report reviews the major food policy issues, developments, and decisions of 2016, and highlights challenges and opportunities for 2017 at the global and regional levels. This year’s report looks at the impact of rapid urban growth on food security and nutrition, and considers how food systems can be reshaped to benefit both urban and rural populations.

Book Poverty and Inequality in Middle Income Countries

Download or read book Poverty and Inequality in Middle Income Countries written by Einar Braathen and published by Zed Books Ltd.. This book was released on 2016-04-15 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection offers a timely reassessment of viable ways of addressing poverty across the globe today. The profile of global poverty has changed dramatically over the past decade, and around three-quarters of the poor now live in middle income countries, making inequality a major issue. This requires us to fundamentally rethink anti-poverty strategies and policies, as many aspects of the established framework for poverty reduction are no longer effective. Featuring contributions from Latin America, Africa and Asia, this much-needed collection answers some of the key questions arising as development policy confronts the challenges of poverty and inequality on the global, national and local scale in both urban and rural contexts. Providing poverty researchers and practitioners with valuable new tools to address new forms of poverty in the right way, Poverty and Inequality in Middle Income Countries shows how a radical switch from aid to redistribution-based social policies is needed to combat new forms of global poverty.

Book Sustainable Urban Futures in Africa

Download or read book Sustainable Urban Futures in Africa written by Michael Addaney and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-12-31 with total page 426 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sustainable Urban Futures in Africa provides a variety of conventional and emerging theoretical frameworks to inform understandings and responses to critical urban development issues such as urbanisation, climate change, housing/slum, informality, urban sprawl, urban ecosystem services and urban poverty, among others, within the context of the sustainable development goals (SDGs) in Africa. This book addresses topics including challenges to spatial urban development, how spatial planning is delivered, how different urbanisation variables influence the development of different forms of urban systems and settlements in Africa, how city authorities could use old and new methods of land administration to produce sustainable urban spaces in Africa, and the role of local activism is causing important changes in the built environment. Chapters are written by a diverse range of African scholars and practitioners in urban planning and policy design, environmental science and policy, sociology, agriculture, natural resources management, environmental law, and politics. Urban Africa has huge resource potential – both human and natural resources – that can stimulate sustainable development when effectively harnessed. Sustainable Urban Futures in Africa provides support for the SDGs in urban Africa and will be of interest to students and researchers, professionals and policymakers, and readers of urban studies, spatial planning, geography, governance, and other social sciences.