Contact: dominik.kohlhagen@ua.ac.be
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In most African countries, the official land tenure and registration system has a very limited impact only. Local customs and practices frequently contrast sharply with the ‘should-be’ declared by legal statutes or state policy. Based on examples from different countries and regions, this panel aims to explore the way in which state-led interventions interact with local practices with regards to land access and land use.
- How do people locally find arrangements when confronted with inappropriate or ineffective state rules governing land?
- On the other hand, how do state law and policies take (or do not take) account of customary land tenure and local land use practices?
- Are there noteworthy reform initiatives that succeeded to reconcile an official tenure system with social realities at the local level?
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Accepted Abstracts
Land Certification and Actors’ Rationales in Madagascar: Which Strategies in Land Rights Securization?
Colonial Legacy, Access Political Economy of Land, and Legal Pluralism in Uganda: 1900-2010
The Land Question and Decentralisation Reforms in Ethiopia: New Spaces for Local Democracy? Case Studies from Siraro and Deguna Fanigo
Decentralized Land Management in Burundi: Way Out of Crisis or Yet Another Problem?
Land Grabbers or Climate Experts? Farm Occupations and the Quest for Livelihoods Security in Zimbabwe
Political Decentralisation and Agricultural Reform in Rwanda
“Problems of Land Kill Men”. Access to Land, Conflicts and Chefferies in Southwestern Togo
Leasing Scarcity. Land Policies and Social Reality in Rwanda
Characteristics of Land Tenure and the Difficulties of Application of Land Reforms in Subsaharan Africa: The Case of Togo
Negotiating the Formalisation of Community Land Rights in Mozambique: National Policies and Local Processes of Land Law Implementation in a 'Traditional' Community
Implementation of New-wave Land Reforms: Decentralisation and Local Governance of Land in Tanzania
Land Titling in the East African Context: Case of Burundi
The Marriage of Anasewa: Exploring Local Farmers' Positions on Formalization of the Informality in Ghana.
Rural Land Regulation and Precarious Rangelands in West Africa: Lessons from Northern Benin
