Sur un sujet aussi complexe que le foncier, les acteurs ont besoin d’éléments de connaissance et de réflexion pour les aider à orienter leurs actions. Des textes sérieux, mais courts, écrits avec des mots faciles à comprendre sont nécessaires. Ces fiches pédagogiques ont été conçues dans cette perspective. Les fiches ne visent pas à donner des recettes ou à proposer des procédures applicables en toutes circonstances ; elles sont une invitation à la réflexion critique et à des démarches de construction collective, soit pour améliorer les politiques en cours, soit pour développer des approches alternatives.
Land tenure securing systems in West Africa are based on the colonial land registration heritage whose failures have often been targeted for (...)
Migration is mostly seen through the media exposure of conflicts between natives and migrants. Yet, social relationships between migrants and (...)
Some people are vulnerable in terms of land ownership, in other words they are actors who typically experience insecurity as far as their (...)
‘Modern’ legal categories rarely take full account of the complexities of reality on the ground. Worse still, they sometimes lead to profound (...)
When we look at access to land and security of tenure, we talk about formal ‘ownership titles’, ‘informal written contracts’ and oral agreements (...)
Analysis of women’s access to land in West Africa shows that they are central to agricultural development as land users, but rarely have the (...)
In West Africa, decentralization of rural land tenure management systems is considered as the way forward by many actors. However, over a (...)
The process of transferring the land tenure management authority from the central government to local authorities involves the determination (...)
During the last two decades, “local conventions” have increased in the fi eld, and are now considered as promising alternatives solutions for (...)
For many observers, the decentralization policy in Mali is one of the most audacious ones in Africa, because of the high number of (...)
Annual land tax is one of the oldest and simplest of taxes, yet it has long been neglected in West African countries where land ownership is (...)
In Africa, most stakeholders believe that land tenure and registration systems were borrowed from Europe. As a matter of fact, the land (...)
West African land regimes are based on particular constructs of State-owned land. This paper aims to clarify the different conceptions of (...)
Conflicts related to natural resource management, and especially land tenure, tend to be more and more exacerbated. Judicial systems (...)
Many West African countries are currently in the process of reforming their land policies. Discussions tend to focus on the tools and mechanisms (...)
In Africa, it is often assumed that securing land tenure rights necessarily involves administrative land titling to give owners all rights on (...)