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Title:

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

Publisher:

Frank Cassin association with EADI, European Association of Development Research and Training Institutes, Bonn,

Copyright Date:

2003

Description:

175 p. : ill., maps ; 23 cm.

Subject:

Land tenure--Africa.
Natural resources--Africa--Management.
Right of property--Africa.

Other Authors:

Benjaminsen, Tor Arve.
Lund, Christian.
European Association of Development Research and Training Institutes.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

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 Hellum -- The interplay between formal and informal systems of managing resource conflicts: some evidence from south-western Tanzania / Faustin P. Maganga -- Scrambling for land in Tanzania: processes 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 Par ̌-- Race for the prize: land transactions and rent appropriation in the Malian cotton zone / Tor A. Benjaminsen and Espen Sjaastad -- Custom, contracts and Cadastres in north-west Rwanda / Catherine André.

ISBN:

9780714683157 (pbk.)
0714683159 (pbk.)
9780714653808 (cloth)
0714653802 (cloth)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)50803489

LCCN:

2002151969

Locations:

N5UX522 -- University of Iowa Law Library (Iowa City)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)