Teaching notes

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.

• Myths, deadlocks of land registration and the need for alternative approaches, by Hubert Ouedraogo 14/10/2011

  Land tenure securing systems in West Africa are based on the colonial land registration heritage whose failures have often been targeted for (...)

• Land tenure and migration, by Mahamadou Zongo 14/10/2011

  Migration is mostly seen through the media exposure of conflicts between natives and migrants. Yet, social relationships between migrants and (...)

• Limitations of the concept of vulnerable groups in the area of land tenure security, by Oussouby Touré 14/10/2011

  Some people are vulnerable in terms of land ownership, in other words they are actors who typically experience insecurity as far as their (...)

• Examples of the diversity of rights holders and rights to land and natural resources in West Africa by Michel Merlet and Kouadio André Yobouet 14/10/2011

  ‘Modern’ legal categories rarely take full account of the complexities of reality on the ground. Worse still, they sometimes lead to profound (...)

• Rights to land and natural resources, by Michel Merlet 14/10/2011

  When we look at access to land and security of tenure, we talk about formal ‘ownership titles’, ‘informal written contracts’ and oral agreements (...)

• Women and land, by Mariatou Koné 14/10/2011

  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 (...)

• Decentralized vs. local management of land tenure: The Niger case history, by Adam Kandine 14/10/2011

  In West Africa, decentralization of rural land tenure management systems is considered as the way forward by many actors. However, over a (...)

• Local authorities and local territories in rural West Africa, by Eric Idelman 14/10/2011

  The process of transferring the land tenure management authority from the central government to local authorities involves the determination (...)

• Are local conventions effective tools for the joint management of natural resources? by Laurent Granier 14/10/2011

  During the last two decades, “local conventions” have increased in the fi eld, and are now considered as promising alternatives solutions for (...)

• Decentralization in Mali: a constrained ”responsibility transfer“ process, by Prof Cheibane Coulibaly 14/10/2011

  For many observers, the decentralization policy in Mali is one of the most audacious ones in Africa, because of the high number of (...)

• Land tax, by Joseph Comby 14/10/2011

  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 (...)

• Creating and securing ownership in Europe, by Joseph Comby 14/10/2011

  In Africa, most stakeholders believe that land tenure and registration systems were borrowed from Europe. As a matter of fact, the land (...)

• Aspects and characteristics of State-owned land in West Africa, by Gérard Chouquer 14/10/2011

  West African land regimes are based on particular constructs of State-owned land. This paper aims to clarify the different conceptions of (...)

• Alternative land tenure conflict management mechanisms: Analytical tools by Koffi Alinon 14/10/2011

  Conflicts related to natural resource management, and especially land tenure, tend to be more and more exacerbated. Judicial systems (...)

• Securing and regulating land tenure: putting the issues before the tools. Some of the obstacles to coherent policies. By Vincent Basserie and Patrick d'Aquino. 20/09/2011

  Many West African countries are currently in the process of reforming their land policies. Discussions tend to focus on the tools and mechanisms (...)

• Overlapping of Land Rights in Europe, by Joseph Comby 20/09/2011

  In Africa, it is often assumed that securing land tenure rights necessarily involves administrative land titling to give owners all rights on (...)