Africa
Kenya and South Africa
Community Land Trusts first emerged in the Global South in Voi, Kenya with the Tanzania-Bondeni Community Land Trust. And there is emerging interest in applying the CLT model in South Africa as well.
Kenya
Articles
- English
- Seeding the CLT in Africa: Lessons from the Early Efforts to Establish Community Land Trusts in Kenya, Claire Simmoneau and Ellen Bassett, with Emmanuel Midheme, On Common Ground, Terra Nostra Press, 2020
- Community Land Trust – Voi, Kenya, Claire Simonneau, UMR Géographie-cités, with Emmanuel Midheme, Maseno University, Sharlet Mkabili, Maseno University, Severiano Odhiambo, Maseno University. Geographie-Cités Research Laboratory, 2018
- Pushing back the frontiers of property: Community land trusts and low-income housing in urban Kenya, Emmanuel Midheme, Frank Moulaert, Land Use Policy, November 2013
- The Persistence of the Commons: Economic Theory and Community Decision-Making on Land Tenure in Voi, Kenya, Ellen Bassett, African Studies Quarterly, Spring 2007
- Tinkering with tenure: the community land trust experiment in Voi, Kenya, Ellen M. Bassett, Habitat International, 2005
- Institutions and informal settlements: The planning implications of the Community Land Trust experiment in Kenya, Ellen M. Bassett, dissertation, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2001
- Community-based tenure reform in urban Africa: the community land trust experiment in Voi, Kenya, Ellen M Bassett, Harvey M. Jacobs, Land Use Policy, July 1997
- French
- Simonneau, Claire, Éric Denis, Issa Sory. 2019. Quel potentiel pour les approches coopératives et collectives pour l’habitat populaire? Éléments du débat, grille d’analyse et exemples burkinabé et Kenyan. Afrique Contemporaine, 2019. Also available at: https://www.cltweb.org/resources/research-and-scholarship/
- Simonneau, Claire, Le Community Land Trust aux États-Unis, au Kenya et en Belgique. Canaux de circulation d’un modèle alternatif et jeu d’intertextualité, Riurba, 2018
Videos
- Community Land Trust, Kenya, UN-Habitat, 2009
South Africa
Articles
- Community land trusts and social inclusion, Heinz Klug and Neil Klug, from Politics and Community-Based Research: Perspectives from Yeoville Studio, Johannesburg, Wits University Press, 2019