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Indicators for Measuring Spatial Justice and Land Tenure Security for Poor and Low Income Urban Dwellers

Land, 2018
There exist various indicators that measure land tenure security for urbanites. Most of those indicators measure the degree to which land titling promotes the security of tenure. Based on the reviewed literature, it is admitted that land titling is not a
Ernest Uwayezu, Walter T. de Vries
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Effect of land tenure security on agricultural productivity among small scale farmers in Kenya: a conditional mixed processes analysis

Cogent Food & Agriculture, 2022
Security of land tenure among rural households is an integral part in achieving high agricultural productivity. However, there is limited information on the nexus between land tenure security, credit access and agricultural productivity.
Joseph Jabu Mbudzya, Eric Obedy Gido, George Owuor   +2 more
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Research on the Influence Mechanism of Land Tenure Security on Farmers’ Cultivated Land Non-Grain Behavior

Agriculture, 2022
Cultivated land planting structure is directly related to China’s food security. The Central Rural Work Conference in 2021 pointed out that to ensure food security, attention should be paid to the adjustment of planting structure.
Jizhou Zhang, Xiaojing Li, Shouhong Xie, Xianli Xia   +3 more
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Process and mechanism of land acquisition and land tenure security in informal settlements in Nairobi

Japan Architectural Review, 2021
Urbanization and informal settlements are a prevalent phenomenon in most African regions; they play an important role in the real estate market and the housing supply.
Haruka Ono, Tetsuo Kidokoro
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Effect of forestland tenure security on rural household forest management and protection in southern China

Global Ecology and Conservation, 2020
Initiated in 2003, China’s recent round of collective forest tenure reform (CFTR) aims to improve tenure security and motivate households to engage in forestry production. For the forested land allocated to households after the reforms, forest management
Yang Yang, Hua Li, Zhen Liu, Assem Abu Hatab, Junsheng Ha   +4 more
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Championing Women’s Tenure Security

, 2022
AbstractEfforts around tenure security have largely followed a gender-blind approach, leaving behind millions of women who are consistently denied access and rights to land and ignoring experts’ claims that strengthening women’s tenure security can yield a host of socially desirable outcomes.
Diana Fletschner, Shipra Deo, Monica Mhoja   +2 more
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Synthesizing the links between secure housing tenure and health for more equitable cities [version 2; peer review: 1 approved, 2 approved with reservations]

Wellcome Open Research, 2023
Millions of households in rich and poor countries alike are at risk of being unwilfully displaced from their homes or the land on which they live (i.e., lack secure tenure), and the urban poor are most vulnerable. Improving housing tenure security may be
Judith Rodriguez, Majid Ezzati, Yvonne Doyle, Jill Baumgartner, Frans Berkhout, Zahidul Quayyum, George Owuso, Meghan Winters, Bethlehem Solomon, Brian E. Robinson, Gary Adamkiewicz   +10 more
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Tenure security and housing investment: Owner-occupants and renters in Bangladesh's poor settlements

Journal of Urban Management, 2023
This paper explores the relationship between land tenure security and housing investment among households in Bangladeshi poor settlements. The level of housing investment is measured through the type of physical structure of the house, or more ...
James Nguyen H. Spencer, Thu Nguyen, Saiful Momen   +2 more
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Differentiations in Women’s Land Tenure Experiences: Implications for Women’s Land Access and Tenure Security in Sub-Saharan Africa

Land, 2019
Most literature on land tenure in sub-Saharan Africa has presented women as a homogenous group. This study uses evidence from Ghana, Nigeria, and Zimbabwe to show that women have differentiated problems, needs, and statuses in their quest for land access
Uchendu Eugene Chigbu, Gaynor Paradza, Walter Dachaga   +2 more
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Women’s Access to Land and Security of Tenure post 2013 Constitution in Zimbabwe

African Journal on Land Policy and Geospatial Sciences, 2020
Rural women’s livelihoods in Africa are dependent on their rights and entitlement to land as well as security of tenure. Equally important is how land laws and land governance systems shape and reshape women’s access to land and tenure security. As such,
Sandra Bhatasara
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