May 2014

Governance of agriculture in the cities of developing countries: Local leaders’ perspectives

This paper used the perceptions of local leaders at a ward level to assess the governance of urban agriculture (UA) in Kinondoni Municipality-Dar Es Salaam City in Tanzania. Unstructured interviews were conducted with 24 local leaders involved in the day to day governance of UA in the Municipality. During the interviews, the local leaders were requested to narrate their perceptions on the governance of UA in the...

Author(s): Hawa Suleiman Mkwela

May 2014

A grid-based approach for refining population data in rural areas

Accurate and up-to-date population data is a prerequisite for many different applications, including risk and vulnerability management. There is, however, a shortage of data with a high spatial resolution, particularly in developing countries. Population densities are determined either by population census, typically conducted every ten years, or from global grid-based (raster) population datasets with relatively low...

Author(s): Dulal Chandra Roy and Thomas Blaschke