Uchendu Eugene Chigbu
Biographic Data
| ID | 312620 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Uchendu Eugene Chigbu |
| GIVEN NAMES | Uchendu Eugene |
| FAMILY NAME | Chigbu |
| SIGNATURE | CHIGBU U E |
| AFFILIATIONS | Namibia University of Science and Technology |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3522-1172 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 29 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 250 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 29 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 9 |
Greater losses from heat exposure experienced by female smallholders in sub-Saharan Africa
Long-term remote sensing reveals the development of informal settlements and their impact on land surface temperature in African drylands
Decolonising women’s land rights
Unhiding the “land rights” and “land wrongs” in sub-Saharan Africa
Connecting land tenure to climate change
Expanding tenure horizons in food policy research
Current research and opinion on land governance for societal development in and on the global south
Entrepreneurship role in the co-production of public services in informal settlements − A scoping review
Neo-)segregation, (neo-)racism, and one-city two-system planning in Windhoek, Namibia
Connecting land tenure to land restoration
The Parties to the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD) adopted a decision on land tenure in 2019, requesting stakeholders to explore options on how to increase knowledge on responsible governance of tenure as a way to achieve land degradation neutrality. In 2022, the Global Land Outlook, a biennial publication of the UNCCD that assesses the global state of land, identified the need to probe the links between tenure and res…
Tenure-restoration nexus
The Covid-19 pandemic in informal settlements
In view of the Sustainable Development Goal 11, for cities and human settlements to be made inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable, Chigbu and Onyebueke contribute ideas for mitigating the COVID-19 threat in slums They have structured the Viewpoint in line with its objectives First, they begin by unpacking the predominance of informal settlements in cities of the global South Second, they situate the CP incidence in informal settlements as a …
Participation in property formation
Why Tenure Responsive Land-Use Planning Matters
Land use consolidation aims to address food insecurity challenges in Rwanda. However, there is contradictory evidence on whether this tool has met food security objectives or not. This study addresses two questions: How has the land use consolidation improved (or not improved) food security at the local level? How can food security challenges be addressed using a renewed approach to land use consolidation that adopts a tenure responsive land use …
Anatomy of women’s landlessness in the patrilineal customary land tenure systems of sub-Saharan Africa and a policy pathway
Masculinity, men and patriarchal issues aside
The positive impacts of farm land fragmentation in Rwanda
Uncovering land tenure insecurities
Land-use planning, although a mechanism for development, can also generate insecurity during its implementation. This article argues that tenure security and land-use planning should not be implemented in isolation from each other. It posits that land-use planning – rather than restricting the security of people's tenure – has the potential to serve as a means of securing tenure. The article explores tenure (in)security elements in land-use plann…
Urban planning for dummies
Today, urban planning is more important than it ever has been. Perhaps this is due to the need to expand the scope of planning to accommodate the increasing challenges urban residents face today. F
Participatory rapid co-design for transformative resource governance research in the Gulf of Guinea
The villagers
Ruralisation
There is a concept that development practitioners have either not heard of or not read, or have chosen to ignore – ruralisation. Unlike urbanisation in urban studies, ruralisation is rarely used as a concept in rural research. It remains a poorly explored concept. By challenging existing notions about the use of the concept, this article attempts to (re)introduce ruralisation as a fundamental concept in rural studies. What is ruralisation? Why do…
Repositioning culture for development
Most studies on women have ignored women's view of themselves in relation to their roles in community development. This study uses interview and ethnographic data from Nigeria to investigate women's narratives of themselves concerning their position in a rural cultural space in relation to community development. It explores ways of repositioning patriarchal or gender unresponsive cultures for eliciting women's potentials in community development.…
Introduction to community development
Understanding concepts of community development and how they are applied is essential for effective policy-making and development practice, and for fulfilling the current local and global developme
The contested lands of Laikipia
Connecting land tenure to land restoration
The Parties to the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD) adopted a decision on land tenure in 2019, requesting stakeholders to explore options on how to increase knowledge on responsible governance of tenure as a way to achieve land degradation neutrality. In 2022, the Global Land Outlook, a biennial publication of the UNCCD that assesses the global state of land, identified the need to probe the links between tenure and res…
The positive impacts of farm land fragmentation in Rwanda
Tenure-restoration nexus
Connecting land tenure to climate change
Masculinity, men and patriarchal issues aside
Unhiding the “land rights” and “land wrongs” in sub-Saharan Africa
Anatomy of women’s landlessness in the patrilineal customary land tenure systems of sub-Saharan Africa and a policy pathway
Repositioning culture for development
Most studies on women have ignored women's view of themselves in relation to their roles in community development. This study uses interview and ethnographic data from Nigeria to investigate women's narratives of themselves concerning their position in a rural cultural space in relation to community development. It explores ways of repositioning patriarchal or gender unresponsive cultures for eliciting women's potentials in community development.…
Current research and opinion on land governance for societal development in and on the global south
Uncovering land tenure insecurities
Land-use planning, although a mechanism for development, can also generate insecurity during its implementation. This article argues that tenure security and land-use planning should not be implemented in isolation from each other. It posits that land-use planning – rather than restricting the security of people's tenure – has the potential to serve as a means of securing tenure. The article explores tenure (in)security elements in land-use plann…
Fostering rural sense of place
This article argues that the absence of a sense of place in rural Nigeria impedes development. It uses the case of Uturu to show that understanding the relationships people share with natural features and phenomena around them is important in their development. It proposes a framework constituted of rural mind, rural life, and rural character; and argues that strengthening one or the other pillar of this framework will likely lead to strengthenin…
Participation in property formation
The Handbook of Research on Entrepreneurship in Agriculture and Rural Development
The Handbook of Research on Entrepreneurship in Agriculture and Rural Development, edited by Gry Agnete Alsos, Sara Carter, Elisabet Ljunggren and Friederike Welter, Cheltenham and Northampton, Edw
Participatory rapid co-design for transformative resource governance research in the Gulf of Guinea
Village renewal as an instrument of rural development
Rural migrants are usually accused of contributing to urban poverty. This is different in Germany, where urban migrants are often accused of contributing to difficulties in rural living. These difficulties range from distortions in cultural lifestyle to loss of rural identity to unrealistic economic lifestyles. In an effort to help rural people respond to these challenges, the German government initiated a village renewal policy that allows rural…
Neo-)segregation, (neo-)racism, and one-city two-system planning in Windhoek, Namibia
Ruralisation
There is a concept that development practitioners have either not heard of or not read, or have chosen to ignore – ruralisation. Unlike urbanisation in urban studies, ruralisation is rarely used as a concept in rural research. It remains a poorly explored concept. By challenging existing notions about the use of the concept, this article attempts to (re)introduce ruralisation as a fundamental concept in rural studies. What is ruralisation? Why do…
Expanding tenure horizons in food policy research
The villagers
Introduction to community development
Understanding concepts of community development and how they are applied is essential for effective policy-making and development practice, and for fulfilling the current local and global developme
One Billion Rising
The Handbook of Research on Entrepreneurship in Agriculture and Rural Development
The Handbook of Research on Entrepreneurship in Agriculture and Rural Development, edited by Gry Agnete Alsos, Sara Carter, Elisabet Ljunggren and Friederike Welter, Cheltenham and Northampton, Edw
Village renewal as an instrument of rural development
Rural migrants are usually accused of contributing to urban poverty. This is different in Germany, where urban migrants are often accused of contributing to difficulties in rural living. These difficulties range from distortions in cultural lifestyle to loss of rural identity to unrealistic economic lifestyles. In an effort to help rural people respond to these challenges, the German government initiated a village renewal policy that allows rural…
Fostering rural sense of place
This article argues that the absence of a sense of place in rural Nigeria impedes development. It uses the case of Uturu to show that understanding the relationships people share with natural features and phenomena around them is important in their development. It proposes a framework constituted of rural mind, rural life, and rural character; and argues that strengthening one or the other pillar of this framework will likely lead to strengthenin…
Introduction to community development
Understanding concepts of community development and how they are applied is essential for effective policy-making and development practice, and for fulfilling the current local and global developme
The villagers
Ruralisation
There is a concept that development practitioners have either not heard of or not read, or have chosen to ignore – ruralisation. Unlike urbanisation in urban studies, ruralisation is rarely used as a concept in rural research. It remains a poorly explored concept. By challenging existing notions about the use of the concept, this article attempts to (re)introduce ruralisation as a fundamental concept in rural studies. What is ruralisation? Why do…
Repositioning culture for development
Most studies on women have ignored women's view of themselves in relation to their roles in community development. This study uses interview and ethnographic data from Nigeria to investigate women's narratives of themselves concerning their position in a rural cultural space in relation to community development. It explores ways of repositioning patriarchal or gender unresponsive cultures for eliciting women's potentials in community development.…
Participatory rapid co-design for transformative resource governance research in the Gulf of Guinea
Urban planning for dummies
Today, urban planning is more important than it ever has been. Perhaps this is due to the need to expand the scope of planning to accommodate the increasing challenges urban residents face today. F
Why Tenure Responsive Land-Use Planning Matters
Land use consolidation aims to address food insecurity challenges in Rwanda. However, there is contradictory evidence on whether this tool has met food security objectives or not. This study addresses two questions: How has the land use consolidation improved (or not improved) food security at the local level? How can food security challenges be addressed using a renewed approach to land use consolidation that adopts a tenure responsive land use …
Anatomy of women’s landlessness in the patrilineal customary land tenure systems of sub-Saharan Africa and a policy pathway
Masculinity, men and patriarchal issues aside
The positive impacts of farm land fragmentation in Rwanda
Uncovering land tenure insecurities
Land-use planning, although a mechanism for development, can also generate insecurity during its implementation. This article argues that tenure security and land-use planning should not be implemented in isolation from each other. It posits that land-use planning – rather than restricting the security of people's tenure – has the potential to serve as a means of securing tenure. The article explores tenure (in)security elements in land-use plann…
Participation in property formation
The Covid-19 pandemic in informal settlements
In view of the Sustainable Development Goal 11, for cities and human settlements to be made inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable, Chigbu and Onyebueke contribute ideas for mitigating the COVID-19 threat in slums They have structured the Viewpoint in line with its objectives First, they begin by unpacking the predominance of informal settlements in cities of the global South Second, they situate the CP incidence in informal settlements as a …
Tenure-restoration nexus
Entrepreneurship role in the co-production of public services in informal settlements − A scoping review
Neo-)segregation, (neo-)racism, and one-city two-system planning in Windhoek, Namibia
Connecting land tenure to land restoration
The Parties to the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD) adopted a decision on land tenure in 2019, requesting stakeholders to explore options on how to increase knowledge on responsible governance of tenure as a way to achieve land degradation neutrality. In 2022, the Global Land Outlook, a biennial publication of the UNCCD that assesses the global state of land, identified the need to probe the links between tenure and res…
The contested lands of Laikipia
Current research and opinion on land governance for societal development in and on the global south
Decolonising women’s land rights
Unhiding the “land rights” and “land wrongs” in sub-Saharan Africa
Geography (20 works) · Political science (20 works) · Economics (18 works) · Business (15 works) · Sociology (14 works) · Land Rights and Reforms (13 works) · Economic growth (11 works) · Environmental planning (10 works) · Land tenure (10 works) · Agriculture, Land Use, Rural Development (9 works)