With Cities Alliance support, Urban LandMark recently surveyed a series of new settlements to uncover how poor people access, hold and trade land. The studies were done in Lilongwe, Malawi and in Tete, Mozambique. They shed light on how informal land transactions occur, and the extent to which they result in tenure security and asset creation in informal and traditional settlements. The work is part of the Tenure Security Facility Southern Africa project which practically applies appropriate forms of tenure security and contributes lessons to urban slum upgrading in cities in Africa. » More