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The Persistence of the Commons: Economic Theory and Community Decision-Making on Land Tenure in Voi, Kenya.

Projects to secure land rights for the urban poor have been implemented in Sub-Saharan Africa for thirty years. A recurrent issue is providing sustainable land tenure for settlement residents/project beneficiaries. Commonly, individual titles have been used. Often recipients sell their land rights t...

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Published in:African Studies Quarterly Vol. 9; no. 3; pp. 2 - 31
Main Author: BASSETT, ELLEN M.
Format: Article
Published: African Studies Quarterly Spring2007
Subjects:
Commons
Economics
Land tenure
Rural land use
Decision making
Kenya
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