Article: Land and the politics of belonging in West Africa.(Brief Article)(Book Review)

Article: The Dynamics of Resource Tenure in West Africa
African Studies Review;  September 1, 2003 ;     700+ words ... ... Resource Tenure in West Africa is well researched ... at the dynamics of land tenure and includes forest ... such as resolving land tenure conflict, decentralized ... Faso. The issue of land tenure rights in West Africa is a complicated ...

Article: WEST AFRICA: Focus On Concerns Over Regional Gas ...
Africa News Service;  December 29, 2000 ;     700+ words ... ... is expected to boost, significantly, energy generation in West Africa, which will be consumed mostly by independent power producers ... of fires from pipeline ruptures and changes to traditional land tenure systems. Under the principles of the Rio Declaration agreed ...

Article: Ghana Fast Becoming Gateway to West Africa.
Africa News Service;  March 1, 2005 ;     700+ words ... ... operations into the region from Ghana. They say it is a gateway to west Africa. They perceive the politically stable and economically vibrant ... include a lack of disposable income, bureaucracy, corruption, land tenure and property rights difficulties, a slow legal system, the ...

Article: The ecology of practice: studies of food-crop production in ...
Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute;  September 9, 1999 ;     700+ words ... ... ecology and economics of food crop production in Sub-Saharan West Africa'. Six of the participants agreed to contribute to a volume ... Senegal River in Mauritania, Thomas Parks argues that the local land tenure system founded on the Islamic indirass legal concept, which ...

Article: Customary land tenure reform and development: a ...
Law, Social Justice and Global Development Journal;  April 1, 2009 ;     700+ words ... ... Development 2.5 The Nature of Customary Land Tenure 2.6 Land Reform and Development 3. Customary Land Tenure under Colonial and Post-Colonial Land ... The National Land Policy: Customary Land Tenure Reform and Development 5 Conclusion ...

Article: On Understanding Too Quickly: Colonial and Postcolonial ...
Human Organization;  April 1, 2007 ;     700+ words ... ... government attempts to understand Fijian land tenure led to confusion about its nature and ... lineage system, the mataqali. Actual land tenure is, however, more complex, and in ... Vitilevu, this paper shows how Fijian land tenure cannot be reduced to its superficial ...

Article: Postwar land dispute resolution: Land tenure and ...
International Journal on World Peace;  September 1, 2001 ;     700+ words ... ... research, and policy work focuses on land tenure, natural resources, and agriculture ... and Latin America involved in work on land tenure, conflict resolution, irrigation ... on these issues. ********** Land tenure issues are important to a peace process ...