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Author : Philippe Lavigne Delville
Publisher : IIED
Page : 142 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2001-12-31
Category : Africa, West
ISBN : 1899825959
Land tenure and Resource Access in West Africa Programme
Author : Lacinan Paré,International Institute for Environment and Development
Publisher : IIED
Page : 38 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Agricultural contracts
ISBN : 9781899825837
Author : Richard Kuba,Carola Lentz
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2005-12-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789047417033
Recognizing that land rights are ambiguous, negotiable and politically embedded, these case studies explore the long-term processes and recent changes in contemporary rural West Africa affecting the conversion of control over land into social and political capital and vice versa. They point to the colonial origins of what came to be viewed as ‘customary’ tenure and to the legal pluralism characterizing pre-colonial tenure arrangements. Furthermore, they show the spiritual and ritual importance of land that can be converted into political power and economic prerogatives, a dimension neglected by much of the recent literature. Analyses cover forest and savannah, state and segmentary societies, facilitating comparison and insights across the Anglo-Francophone divide.
Author : Carola Lentz
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 349 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2013-07-05
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780253009616
An ethnographic study of issues of land rights, property regimes, and ethnicity in West Africa. Focusing on an area of the savannah in northern Ghana and southwestern Burkina Faso, Land, Mobility, and Belonging in West Africa explores how rural populations have secured, contested, and negotiated access to land and how they have organized their communities despite being constantly on the move as farmers or migrant laborers. Carola Lentz seeks to understand how those who claim native status hold sway over others who are perceived to have come later. As conflicts over land, agriculture, and labor have multiplied in Africa, Lentz shows how politics and power play decisive roles in determining access to scarce resources and in changing notions of who belongs and who is a stranger. “Illuminates the distinctive historical trajectory of land claims, authority, and belonging among the Dagara and Sisala peoples of the Black Volta region, and locates this specific case history within broader debates over transformation in access, use, and control over land in colonial and postcolonial Africa.” —Sara Berry, Johns Hopkins University “Important in the sense that it constitutes a detailed historical study of how complex narratives of belonging and notions of property interlock. . . . It is academic work of the first order.” —Christian Lund, Roskilde University
Author : Lorenzo Cotula,Camilla Toulmin,Julian Quan
Publisher : IIED
Page : 53 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Land reform
ISBN : 9781843696322
Author : Toyin Falola,Jessica Achberger
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 453 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2013-06-07
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781136683800
While Africa is too often regarded as lying on the periphery of the global political arena, this is not the case. African nations have played an important historical role in world affairs. It is with this understanding that the authors in this volume set out upon researching and writing their chapters, making an important collective contribution to our understanding of modern Africa. Taken as a whole, the chapters represent the range of research in African development, and fully tie this development to the global political economy. African nations play significant roles in world politics, both as nations influenced by the ebbs and flows of the global economy and by the international political system, but also as actors, directly influencing politics and economics. It is only through an understanding of both the history and present place of Africa in global affairs that we can begin to assess the way forward for future development.
Author : Leo de Haan,Ulf Engel,Patrick Chabal
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 191 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2007-07-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789047420934
To stimulate the exploration of African initiative and creativity beyond immediate socio-economic and political circumstances this book demonstrates that societies in Africa have always showed the ability to negotiate whatever constraining ecological, economic and political circumstances they faced.
Author : William Vorley
Publisher : IIED
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Agriculture and state
ISBN : 9781843692461
Author : Stein Holden,Keijiro Otsuka,Frank Place
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2010-09-30
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781136523540
This book is the first systematic attempt to address emerging land markets and their implications for poverty, equity, and efficiency across a number of African countries. The high incidence of poverty and the need for increased agricultural productivity remain acute in rural areas of sub-Saharan Africa, where a lack of secure land rights and a growing scarcity of land relative to the size of the population are becoming increasingly critical issues. Indeed, land issues in the region are high on the international policy agenda. Yet our knowledge about land tenure security and other rural factor markets (such as labor, oxen, manure, purchased inputs, and credit) is far from adequate to formulate sensible policies. The case studies in the book show that, while land markets and especially informal markets have been rapidly emerging in densely populated parts of Africa - and have generally been to the benefit of the poor--their functions remain imperfect. This is due to policy-induced tenure insecurity and the fragmentation of agricultural land. Applying rigorous quantitative analyses, the book provides a basis for taking into account the role of land markets in national land policies. All too often, the authors argue, land policies have been extreme, either prohibiting all land transactions or giving unrestricted freehold rights to a small elite at the expense of the poor. From the long experience in Asia, it is known that such policies are detrimental to both production efficiency and equity of land use. The authors argue that future policies in Africa should work with the markets. Regulations should be imposed only with careful testing that they are having the intended effects. The Emergence of Land Markets in Africa is a resource for teaching in developed and developing countries, as it provides both comprehensive reviews of the literature and detailed case studies. It is intended to facilitate the dialogue between researchers and policymakers, as well as inspire researchers to go further in their investigations and build an even stronger basis for good policies. The Emergence of Land Markets in Africa is the first publication in the new Environment for Development (EfD) book series. EfD books focus on research and applications in environmental and natural resource economics as they are relevant to poverty reduction and environmental problems in developing countries. The EfD book series is part of the EfD initiative. (www.environmentfordevelopment.org)
Author : Reginald Cline-Cole,Elsbeth Robson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2016-02-17
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781317904939
West African Worlds provides a critical assessment of social, economic and political change in Africa’s most populous and arguably most externally focused region. With an emphasis on globalisation and modernisation, case studies and commentary are integrated throughout to highlight the concerns and issues of the region. Enriched by an impressive mix of West African voices, this text combines theory and application with policy and practice to address socio-economic change, the pursuit of livelihoods, and development within West Africa.
Author : Sam Moyo,Dzodzi Tsikata
Publisher : African Books Collective
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2015-12-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9782869786783
The variety of land questions facing Africa and the divergent strategies proposed to resolve them continue to evoke debates. Increasingly, in response to the enduring problems of land tenure, there are land movements of all shapes and orientations, some reformist and others quite revolutionary in their agenda. However revolutionary, land movements have tended to ignore the land tenure interests of women, pastoralists, youth and indigenous people. Several of these longstanding and emerging issues in land tenure include the role of the state in land tenure reforms; urban land questions, the nature of land struggles and improvements; and, the impact of land tenure developments on particular social groups and countries. An overarching concern is the extent to which land rights are being commodified, through the conversion of land held under customary tenure systems into marketised systems. The consequences of this include growing land concentration, land tenure insecurities, diminishing access to land by various sections of society, including the poor, women and less dominant ethno-religious groups. This volume brings together different studies on Africas land questions exploring emerging land issues on the continent in terms of the wider questions of development, citizenship, and democratisation. The chapters discuss the land question through a variety of themes. Some focus on the agrarian aspects of the land questions, while others elucidate the urban dimensions of the land question.
Author : Klaus W. Deininger,World Bank
Publisher : World Bank Publications
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Developing countries
ISBN : 0821350714
Author : Samuel Ojo Oloruntoba,Toyin Falola
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 1116 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2021-11-22
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9783030774813
This handbook fills a large gap in the current knowledge about the critical role of Africa in the changing global order. By connecting the past, present, and future in a continuum that shows the paradox of existence for over one billion people, the book underlines the centrality of the African continent to global knowledge production, the global economy, global security, and global creativity. Bringing together perspectives from top Africa scholars, it actively dispels myths of the continent as just a passive recipient of external influences, presenting instead an image of an active global agent that astutely projects soft power. Unlike previous handbooks, this book offers an eclectic mix of historical, contemporary, and interdisciplinary approaches that allow for a more holistic view of the many aspects of Africa’s relations with the world.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : IIED
Page : 59 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Land tenure
ISBN : 9781899825318
Author : Franz von Benda-Beckmann,Keebet von Benda-Beckmann,Melanie Wiber
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1845457277
As an important contribution to debates on property theory and the role of law in creating, disputing, defining and refining property rights, this volume provides new theoretical material on property systems, as well as new empirically grounded case studies of the dynamics of property transformations. The property claimants discussed in these papers represent a diverse range of actors, including post-socialist states and their citizens, those receiving restitution for past property losses in Africa, Southeast Asia and in eastern Europe, collectives, corporate and individual actors. The volume thus provides a comprehensive anthropological analysis not only of property structures and ideologies, but also of property (and its politics) in action.
