Securing Land Rights in Africa

Informationen zum Autor Tor A. Benjaminsen, Christian Lund Klappentext This collection of research papers from across the African continent illustrates the complex and ever-changing rules of the land tenure game. Zusammenfassung This collection of research papers from across the African continent illustrates the complex and ever-changing rules of the land tenure game. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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

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• Authors: Tor A. Benjaminsen, Tor A. Lund Benjaminsen, Tor Arve Lund Benjaminsen, Benjaminsen Tor A., BENJAMINSEN TOR ARVE LUND CHRIST, Christian Lund, Lund Christian
• Assisted by: Tor A. Benjaminsen (Editor), Christian Lund (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 15.01.2003
• EAN: 9780714653808
• ISBN: 978-0-7146-5380-8
• No. of pages: 194
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Technology > Electronics, electrical engineering, communications engineering; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; HISTORY / Military / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Economy, Politics & government, Politics and government