1st Edition

Securing Land Rights in Africa

By Tor A. Benjaminsen, Christian Lund Copyright 2003
    192 Pages
    by Routledge

    194 Pages
    by Routledge

    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.

    Foreword; Formalisation and Informalisation of Land and Water Rights in Africa: An Introduction and Reinventing Institutions: Bricolage and the Social Embeddedness of Natural Resource Management; Neither Tragedy Nor Enclosure: Are There Inherent Human Rights in Water Management in Zimbabwe's Communal Lands? The Interplay Between Formal and Informal Systems of Managing Resource Conflicts: Some Evidence from South-Western Tanzania; Scrambling for Land in Tanzania: Processes of Formalisation and Legitimisation of Land Rights; When Farmers Use 'Pieces of Paper' to Record Their Land Transactions in Francophone Rural Africa: Insights into the Dynamics of Institutional Innovation; Monetary Land Transactions in Western Burkina Faso: Commoditisation, Papers and Ambiguities; Race for the Prize: Land Transactions and Rent; Appropriation in the Malian Cotton Zone and Custom, Contracts and Cadastres in North-West Rwanda

    Biography

    Tor A. Benjaminsen, Christian Lund