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Includes strategic plan for implementation of the land laws, implementation activities: setting up local land administrations and dispute mechanisms, lessons learned and challenges ahead.
Covers achievements and weaknesses of local land tenure management system; the local land tenure management system in the context of decentralization.
I683 new ‘communes’ have been created in Mali’s audacious decentralization policy. This has made central the issue of authority, responsibility and resource transfer from the central government.
Why does the delimitation of local authorities’ area of influence cause so many problems in most West African countries?
Fears of food insecurity, water scarcity and the search for diminishing natural resources are making land our most precious asset. This edition of Food Ethics takes a closer look at some of these pressures on land in the UK and the developing world, and assesses the best ways of tackling them.
Includes land registration: the favourite instrument of the colonial land reclamation policy; land registration in real contexts; need for alternative land tenure securing approaches.
Includes land and violent conflict in Africa; land policy in conflict-affected or conflict-prone contexts; key elements of conflict-sensitive land policy; the framework and guidelines for land policy in Africa; role of the different actors; conclusions and recommendations.
Covers multiplicity and diversity of land conflicts; the formal conflict settlement and its limitations; definitions of alternative conflict management methods; key alternative conflict management methods; limitations of alternative conflict management mechanisms.
During the last two decades, local conventions have increased in the field, and are now considered as promising alternative solutions for a participatory management of natural resources and land. But what does the concept ‘local conventions’ mean?