Uchendu Eugene Chigbu

Scientific Researcher and Lecturer at Chair of Land Management at Technical University of Munich

Major works

Chigbu UE. (2019). Anatomy of women’s landlessness in the patrilineal customary land tenure systems of sub-Saharan Africa and a policy pathway. Land Use Policy, 86, pp. 126-135.
Chigbu, U.E.; Ntihinyurwa, P.D.; de Vries, W.T.; Ngenzi, E.I. (2019). Why Tenure Responsive Land-Use Planning Matters: Insights for Land Use Consolidation for Food Security in Rwanda. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 16, 1354.
Chigbu, U. E., Haub, O., Mabikke, S., Antonio, D., & Espinoza, J. (2016). Tenure Responsive Land Use Planning: A Guide for Country Level Implementation. UN-Habitat: Nairobi, Kenya.

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About me

Eugene coordinates the PhD programme in land management at the Faculty of Aerospace and Geodesy, Technical University of Munich, Germany. He is a member of the Commissions on “Surveying education” and “Spatial planning” of the International Federation of Surveyors (FIG). He has managed international multi-stakeholder projects, co-funded by the GLTN/UN-Habitat, GIZ, and International Social Science Council and he is currently the co-Chair of the International Research and Training Cluster of the Global Land Tool Network (of UN-Habitat). Eugene developed the curricula (and module) content of the “land tenure” and “land use planning” parts of the MOOC “Introduction of Land Management”.