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The Dynamics of Resource Tenure in West Africa

Author : Camilla Toulmin
Publisher : James Currey Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9780852554197
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (541 download)

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Book Synopsis The Dynamics of Resource Tenure in West Africa by : Camilla Toulmin

Download or read book The Dynamics of Resource Tenure in West Africa written by Camilla Toulmin and published by James Currey Publishers. This book was released on 2002 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The contributors to this book are all West Africans. They draw on their experience to find new ways of understanding land tenure. There is increasing concern about land and resource access in West Africa, both in governments and donor organizations. This concern has emerged as a result of a number of factors: failed development projects, perceived by many to result from the neglect of land tenure issues; degradation of soils and vegetation which have been associated with poorly defined rules governing management of resources; higher levels of conflict in rural society arising from greater scarcity of natural resources; and the awareness that people need secure rights in order to invest in their farms and improve productivity. Published in association with IIED and GRET

Negotiating Access to Land in West Africa

Author : Philippe Lavigne Delville
Publisher : IIED
ISBN 13 : 9781899825950
Total Pages : 142 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (259 download)

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Book Synopsis Negotiating Access to Land in West Africa by : Philippe Lavigne Delville

Download or read book Negotiating Access to Land in West Africa written by Philippe Lavigne Delville and published by IIED. This book was released on 2001-12-31 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Land tenure and Resource Access in West Africa Programme

Land and the Politics of Belonging in West Africa

Author : Richard Kuba
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9047417038
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (474 download)

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Book Synopsis Land and the Politics of Belonging in West Africa by : Richard Kuba

Download or read book Land and the Politics of Belonging in West Africa written by Richard Kuba and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2005-12-01 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recognizing that land rights are ambiguous, negotiable and politically embedded, these case studies explore the long-term processes and recent changes in contemporary rural West Africa affecting the conversion of control over land into social and political capital and vice versa. They point to the colonial origins of what came to be viewed as ‘customary’ tenure and to the legal pluralism characterizing pre-colonial tenure arrangements. Furthermore, they show the spiritual and ritual importance of land that can be converted into political power and economic prerogatives, a dimension neglected by much of the recent literature. Analyses cover forest and savannah, state and segmentary societies, facilitating comparison and insights across the Anglo-Francophone divide.

Land, Mobility, and Belonging in West Africa

Author : Carola Lentz
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 0253009618
Total Pages : 349 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (53 download)

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Book Synopsis Land, Mobility, and Belonging in West Africa by : Carola Lentz

Download or read book Land, Mobility, and Belonging in West Africa written by Carola Lentz and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2013-07-05 with total page 349 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An ethnographic study of issues of land rights, property regimes, and ethnicity in West Africa. Focusing on an area of the savannah in northern Ghana and southwestern Burkina Faso, Land, Mobility, and Belonging in West Africa explores how rural populations have secured, contested, and negotiated access to land and how they have organized their communities despite being constantly on the move as farmers or migrant laborers. Carola Lentz seeks to understand how those who claim native status hold sway over others who are perceived to have come later. As conflicts over land, agriculture, and labor have multiplied in Africa, Lentz shows how politics and power play decisive roles in determining access to scarce resources and in changing notions of who belongs and who is a stranger. “Illuminates the distinctive historical trajectory of land claims, authority, and belonging among the Dagara and Sisala peoples of the Black Volta region, and locates this specific case history within broader debates over transformation in access, use, and control over land in colonial and postcolonial Africa.” —Sara Berry, Johns Hopkins University “Important in the sense that it constitutes a detailed historical study of how complex narratives of belonging and notions of property interlock. . . . It is academic work of the first order.” —Christian Lund, Roskilde University

Tenure Policy and Natural Resource Management in Sahelian West Africa

Author : Steven W. Lawry
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 34 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (319 download)

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Download or read book Tenure Policy and Natural Resource Management in Sahelian West Africa written by Steven W. Lawry and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Forest Tenure Reform in Asia and Africa

Author : Randall Bluffstone
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317591607
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (175 download)

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Book Synopsis Forest Tenure Reform in Asia and Africa by : Randall Bluffstone

Download or read book Forest Tenure Reform in Asia and Africa written by Randall Bluffstone and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-11-13 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Forest tenure reforms are occurring in many developing countries around the world. These reforms typically include devolution of forest lands to local people and communities, which has attracted a great deal of attention and interest. While the nature and level of devolution vary by country, all have potentially important implications for resource allocation, local ecosystem services, livelihoods and climate change. This book helps students, researchers and professionals to understand the importance and implications of these reforms for local environmental quality, climate change, and the livelihoods of villagers, who are often poor. It is shown that local forest management can often be more successful than top-down management of common pool forest resources. The relationship of local forest tenure reform to the important climate change initiative REDD+ is also considered. The work includes a number of generic chapters and also detailed case studies from China, Ethiopia, Kenya, Nepal, Tanzania and Uganda. Using specific examples and a wide variety of disciplinary perspectives, including quantitative and qualitative analytical methods, the book provides an authoritative and critical picture of local forest reforms in light of the key challenges humanity faces today.

Towards a New Map of Africa

Author : Camilla Toulmin
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136551328
Total Pages : 378 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (365 download)

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Download or read book Towards a New Map of Africa written by Camilla Toulmin and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012-05-23 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'The big, era-defining questions and, at last, the subtle, tenable answers, teased out without clich or compromise. A vital volume at a critical moment.' Dr Augustus Casely-Hayford, Director, Africa '05 'This book dispels the myth of a uniformly hopeless, hungry continent. It shows just how extraordinarily diverse Africa is and how much it has changed in the last 20 years.Full of fresh thinking on problems that face Africa and new African approaches to development.' Richard Dowden, Director, Royal African Society This ground-breaking book, with a foreword by former President of Ireland (199-997) and UN Human Rights Commissioner (1997 2002) Mary Robinson, uniquely distils the complex issues surrounding Africa at the beginning of the 21st century. African and Western scholars provide a fascinating 'map' for the reader to navigate between issues such as urban and rural livelihoods, the potential of fresh water fishing, health, the HIV/AIDS crisis, conflict and efforts at peacemaking. Also included are critical assessments of Africa's role in the global economy, the growth of regional economic cooperation within Africa, the influence of ethnicity on the continent's politics, the evolution of its political institutions, and the impact of Africa's legal systems on its development. A substantial introductory essay by the editors measures the distance Africa has travelled and the lessons it has learned since Africa in Crisis, the classic Earthscan book, was published in 1985. Ben Wisner is visiting research fellow at DESTIN, London School of Economics and at Benfield Hazard Research Centre, University College London, and visiting professor of environmental studies, Oberlin College, USA. Camilla Toulmin is Director of the International Institute for Environment and Development. Rutendo Chitiga is a freelance writer and editor, and has a postgraduate degree in environment and development.

Competing Norms

Author : Mamadou Diawara
Publisher : Campus Verlag
ISBN 13 : 359350653X
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (935 download)

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Download or read book Competing Norms written by Mamadou Diawara and published by Campus Verlag. This book was released on 2016-10-13 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Review: "Explores what state regulations mean to people in sub-Saharan Africa in the light of already existing local norms with which new regulations compete. The contributions to this volume discuss the competing local, state, and international norms in a diachronic perspective and unfold the intricate ambivalences and contradictions that often characterize these regulations."--Page [4] of cover

Changes in Customary Land Tenure Systems in Africa

Author : Jean-Pierre Chauveau
Publisher : IIED
ISBN 13 : 1843696576
Total Pages : 137 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (436 download)

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Book Synopsis Changes in Customary Land Tenure Systems in Africa by : Jean-Pierre Chauveau

Download or read book Changes in Customary Land Tenure Systems in Africa written by Jean-Pierre Chauveau and published by IIED. This book was released on 2007 with total page 137 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Community Management of Natural Resources in Africa

Author : Dilys Roe
Publisher : IIED
ISBN 13 : 1843697556
Total Pages : 207 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (436 download)

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Book Synopsis Community Management of Natural Resources in Africa by : Dilys Roe

Download or read book Community Management of Natural Resources in Africa written by Dilys Roe and published by IIED. This book was released on 2009 with total page 207 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides a pan-African synthesis of community-based natural resource management (CBNRM), drawing on multiple authors and a wide range of documented experiences from Southern, Eastern, Western and Central Africa. This title discusses the degree to which CBNRM has met poverty alleviation, economic development and nature conservation objectives.

Key Determinants of National Development

Author : Kwaku Appiah-Adu
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317109309
Total Pages : 420 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (171 download)

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Download or read book Key Determinants of National Development written by Kwaku Appiah-Adu and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-03-09 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For those wishing to acquire knowledge on national development issues, this comprehensive compendium traverses a spectrum of subjects that the audience ought to be well acquainted with. The Editors provide instructive findings regarding national development, economic growth and their determinants, but they also offer historical perspectives on the subject and the implications for developing countries. The book addresses a suite of critical themes regarded by development experts to be germane in considering the pertinence of policies and their effective execution. These seven general thematic areas are explored: ¢ Leadership, governance, policy and strategy ¢ Public sector and public financial management ¢ Culture, institutions and people ¢ Natural resources ¢ Science, technology and infrastructure ¢ Private sector and financial markets ¢ Marketing, branding and service delivery This thematic approach enables the contributors to explore the impact of the constituents of each subject area on national development, within the context of a developing economy. The significance of the findings for the relevant stakeholders is consequently reviewed. The combination of theory and practice makes the book and its contents unique.

Securing Land Rights in Africa

Author : Tor A. Benjaminsen
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136346244
Total Pages : 191 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (363 download)

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Download or read book Securing Land Rights in Africa written by Tor A. Benjaminsen and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 191 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

'Civilizing' Resource Investments and Extractivism

Author : Wolfram Laube
Publisher : LIT Verlag Münster
ISBN 13 : 3643910959
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (439 download)

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Book Synopsis 'Civilizing' Resource Investments and Extractivism by : Wolfram Laube

Download or read book 'Civilizing' Resource Investments and Extractivism written by Wolfram Laube and published by LIT Verlag Münster. This book was released on 2020-11 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Attempts to `civilize' the exploitation of natural and mineral resources are globally promoted. The body of rules and regulations -often the outcome of prolonged socio-environmental and political struggles- is impressive. However, the outcomes of their implementation are much less convincing. The chapters in this book show how international law is curtailing national and local regulation, while existing legislation is often watered-down, circumvented or reinterpreted with severe environmental, health and socio-economic impacts, particularly in the `global south'.

Corruption, Natural Resources and Development

Author : Aled Williams
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1785361201
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (853 download)

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Download or read book Corruption, Natural Resources and Development written by Aled Williams and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 2017-01-27 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides a fresh and extensive discussion of corruption issues in natural resources sectors. Reflecting on recent debates in corruption research and revisiting resource curse challenges in light of political ecology approaches, this volume provides a series of nuanced and policy-relevant case studies analyzing patterns of corruption around natural resources and options to reach anti-corruption goals. The potential for new variations of the resource curse in the forest and urban land sectors and the effectiveness of anti-corruption policies in resource sectors are considered in depth. Corruption in oil, gas, mining, fisheries, biofuel, wildlife, forestry and urban land are all covered, and potential solutions discussed.

African Alternatives

Author : Patrick Chabal
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004161139
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (41 download)

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Download or read book African Alternatives written by Patrick Chabal and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2007 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To stimulate the exploration of African initiative and creativity beyond immediate socio-economic and political circumstances this book demonstrates that societies in Africa have always showed the ability to negotiate whatever constraining ecological, economic and political circumstances they faced.

Economic Analysis of Sub-Saharan Africa Real Estate Policies

Author : F. N. Hammond
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230274994
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (32 download)

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Download or read book Economic Analysis of Sub-Saharan Africa Real Estate Policies written by F. N. Hammond and published by Springer. This book was released on 2010-04-29 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Investments are widely accepted as the matchless path to development. Real estate is as much a prerequisite for investment as are capital and labour. Nonetheless, relative progress in ensuring that arrangements concerning real estate are compatible with desired magnitudes of investments in Africa remains far from satisfactory. Treatment of real estate in the development literature remains tangential and incoherent. This volume explores why real estate policies in Africa have not worked well and examines how they can or should be more organised for efficient and successful outcomes. This book is essential reading for all interested in development economics, real estate economics and African studies.

Natural Resources and Local Livelihoods in the Great Lakes Region of Africa

Author : A. Ansoms
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230304990
Total Pages : 287 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (33 download)

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Download or read book Natural Resources and Local Livelihoods in the Great Lakes Region of Africa written by A. Ansoms and published by Springer. This book was released on 2011-03-23 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book looks at how the benefits of economic development in the Great Lakes Region of Africa are not being equally distributed. It studies the impact of the increasing scramble for natural resources upon local livelihoods and considers the ambiguities that characterise the relationship between mining and development.