Search results

1. Library Resource

   

   Overestimating land degradation, underestimating farmers in the Sahel

   Reports & Research

   December, 2001

   Algeria, Burkina Faso, Nigeria, Mauritania, Mali, Ethiopia, Eritrea, Cameroon, South Sudan, Central African Republic, Senegal, Chad, Niger, Sudan

   land management
2. Library Resource

   

   Land rights under pressure: access to resources in southern Benin

   January, 2001

   Benin, Sub-Saharan Africa

   land

   contract farming

   land rights

   land tenure

   Analyses the range of institutional arrangements being used for gaining access to land and natural resources in two regions of southern Benin.

3. Library Resource

   

   Overestimating land degradation, underestimating farmers in the Sahel

   January, 2001

   Burkina Faso, Sub-Saharan Africa

   Land, Climate Change & Environment

   environment

   land degradation

   land

   farmers

   This paper examines the evidence for land degradation in Burkina Faso, and argues that local farming practices are not as unsustainable and environmentally destructive as many reports suggest.Main findings of the study include:there is little evidence of widespread degradation of crop and fallow land in Burkina Faso; the low external input practices used by West African farmers are not leading to region wide land degradation processesa major reason for the overestimation of land degradation has been the underestimation of the abilities of local farmersthere is much more to soil and water co

4. Library Resource

   

   Land management in Ghana: building on tradition and modernity

   January, 2001

   Ghana, Sub-Saharan Africa

   land

   land tenure

   land management

   land registration

   An overlap in the regulation of access to land and resources between customary and state management systems is causing problems of contradiction and conflict. This report analyses the pros and cons of both systems and makes a series of recommendations.State administration of land is found to have worked against poorer elements in Ghana. Whilst the Lands Commission and other institutions have made some positive achievements there is no evidence of practical benefits for the majority. Compulsory acquisition has resulted in displacement, landlessness and social unrest.

5. Library Resource

   

   Getting the lion's share from tourism: private sector-community partnerships in Namibia.

   January, 2001

   Namibia, Europe, Sub-Saharan Africa

   common property

   poverty

   land tenure

   In a number of developing countries, partnerships between the private sector and local communities are becoming more and more common, especially as communities are increasingly gaining rights to wildlife and other valuable tourism assets on their land through national policy changes on land tenure.

6. Library Resource

   

   Negotiating rights: access to land in the cotton zone, Burkina Faso

   January, 2001

   Burkina Faso, Sub-Saharan Africa

   land

   land rights

   land tenure

   The paper examines how derived rights have evolved through settlement, loan, rental or purchase contracts and how these arrangements have developed as a result of national policy and socio-economic history. It goes on to examine how the unique circumstances of "established" and "pioneer" farming areas show differing patterns of change in arrangements over time.