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by Willice O. Abuya Abstract Studies have shown that corporate-community and state-community conflict in mining communities in Africa revolves around at least four issues: land ownership, “unfair”...
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by Kwasi Gyau Baffour Awuah and Felix Nokoi Hammond Abstract While land title formalization is still useful in sub-Saharan Africa, Ghana like many other countries in the sub-region, continues to...
View ArticleWhat is the Matter with African Agriculture?
by Henk Mutsaers and Paul Kleene Abstract The views of forty veterans on sixty years of African agricultural development, published recently in book form, are analyzed against the background of René...
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by Joost Fontein Abstract Based on fieldwork carried out between June 2005 and July 2006, this paper questions common assertions which suggest that recent ‘fast track’ land reform in Zimbabwe did not...
View ArticleThe Persistence of the Commons: Economic Theory and Community Decision-Making...
by Ellen M. Bassett Abstract Projects to secure land rights for the urban poor have been implemented in Sub-Saharan Africa for thirty years. A recurrent issue is providing sustainable land tenure for...
View ArticleSouth African Land Reform and the Global Development Industry
by Thackwray Driver Abstract Over the past decade, “land issues” have reclaimed centre stage in international development debates, with Hernando De Soto’s influential work on land tenure and capitalism...
View ArticleWomen’s Movements, Customary Law, and Land Rights in Africa: The Case of Uganda
by Aili Mari Tripp Abstract Much of the literature on women and land tenure in Africa has viewed the introduction of land titling, registration, and the privatization of land under colonialism and...
View ArticleLe Boisement, le bail, et la législation enviornnementale à Madagascar
de Alain Bertrand Résumé Cette combinaison de trois articles courts traite de l’aboisement, le bail, et la législation sur l’environnement à Madagascar. Le premier article soutien que bien que...
View ArticleAfforestation, Land Tenure and Environmental Legislation in Madagascar
by Alain Bertrand Abstract This combination of three short papers discusses afforestation, land tenure, and environmnetal legislation in Madagascar. The first paper argues that eucalyptus, though not...
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