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Record Nr.

UNINA9910779303203321

Titolo

Securing land rights in Africa / / edited by Tor A. Benjaminsen and Christian Lund

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; Portland, Or. : , : Frank Cass, in association with EADI, European Association of Development Research and Training Institutes, Bonn, , 2003

ISBN

1-136-34631-7

0-203-04588-2

1-283-88701-0

1-136-34624-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (191 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

BenjaminsenTor Arve

LundChristian

Disciplina

333/.0096

Soggetti

Land tenure - Africa

Natural resources - Africa - Management

Right of property - Africa

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Front Cover; Securing Land Rights in Africa; Copyright Page; Contents; Foreword; Abstracts; 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 Helium

The Interplay Between Formal and Informal Systems of Managing Resource Conflicts: Some Evidence from South-Western Tanzania: Faustin P. MagangaScrambling for Land in Tanzania: Process 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 Pare

Race for the Prize: Land Transactions and Rent Appropriation in the Malian Cotton Zone: Tor A. Benjaminsen and Espen SjaastadCustom, Contracts and Cadastres in North-West Rwanda: Catherine Andre; Index

Sommario/riassunto

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.