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Securing land rights in Africa /

This collection of research papers from across the African continent illustrates the complex and ever-changing rules of the land tenure game, and how government legislation and reform (formalization) interact with local innovations (informalization) to form land tenure systems.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor Corporativo: European Association of Development Research and Training Institutes
Otros Autores: Benjaminsen, Tor Arve, Lund, Christian
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: London ; Portland, OR : Frank Cass, in association with EADI, European Association of Development Research and Training Institutes, Bonn, 2003.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Formalisation and informalisation of land and water rights in Africa: an introduction / Tor A. Benjaminsen and Christian Lund
  • Reinventing institutions: Bricolage and the social embeddedness of natural resource management / Frances Cleaver
  • Neither tragedy nor enclosure: are there inherent human rights in water management in Zimbabwe's communal lands? / Bill Derman and Anne Hellum
  • The interplay between formal and informal systems of managing resource conflicts: some evidence from south-western Tanzania / Faustin P. Maganga
  • Scrambling for land in Tanzania: processes of formalisation and legitimisation of land rights/ Rie Odgaard
  • When farmers use 'pieces of paper' to record their land transactions in francophone rural Africa: insights into the dynamics of institutional innovation / Philippe Lavigne Delville
  • Monetary land transactions in Western Burkina Faso: commoditisation, papers and ambiguities / Paul Mathieu, Mahamadou Zongo, and Lucinan Par ̌-- Race for the prize: land transactions and rent appropriation in the Malian cotton zone / Tor A. Benjaminsen and Espen Sjaastad
  • Custom, contracts and Cadastres in north-west Rwanda / Catherine André.