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

• Pubblicazione: London ; ; Portland, Or. : , : Frank Cass, in association with EADI, European Association of Development Research and Training Institutes, Bonn, , 2003
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (191 p.)
• Disciplina: 333/.0096
• Soggetto topico: Land tenure - Africa; Natural resources - Africa - Management; Right of property - Africa
• Altri autori: BenjaminsenTor Arve LundChristian
• 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Securing land rights in Africa
• ISBN: 1-136-34631-7; 0-203-04588-2; 1-283-88701-0; 1-136-34624-4
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910819052003321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II