This article analyses the extent to which the concepts underlying land policies in West Africa that prevail amongst the development organisations most active in this field correspond to the results of the intense debate on the same subject over the last three decades, which has involved almost all branches of the social sciences: ethnology, legal anthropology, sociology, history and rural economics. It is found that the outcomes of these academic analyses are in sharp contrast to the approaches propagated and translated into practice by development agencies, which often start from oversimplified and inadmissibly generalised assumptions, so that one must ask whether the diverging logics of these two disciplines are responsible for this marke...
This paper deals with the disjuncture between recognition of the important role of culture in sustai...
The paper examines man-environment relations in the African savanna. It argues that it is important ...
Land access is becoming a crucial issue in many African contexts, where groups and individuals are c...
This article analyses the extent to which the concepts underlying land policies in West Africa that ...
This article analyses the extent to which the concepts underlying land policies in West Africa that ...
This paper focuses on large-scale land acquisitions and the implications of these new trends for lan...
The long-term effects of development aid. Empirical studies in rural West Africa] - This article is ...
The debate about land reforms in Africa is characterised by two 'schools of thought'. On the one han...
In the Proceedings of Wining Papers and Abstracts - Forum for African Agricultural Research (FARA), ...
Summary This paper discusses the interface of anthropological research on land with policy positions...
Negotiating Access to Land in West Africa provides valuable new insights into how people negotiate a...
This empirically grounded study provides a critical reflection on the land question in Africa, resea...
The United Nations Declaration on the Right to Development supports equality of opportunity in acces...
The papers included in this volume were earlier presented at a conference on the settlement of lan...
Abstract: During the last decades, with the increase of demography, urbanization, globalization and ...
This paper deals with the disjuncture between recognition of the important role of culture in sustai...
The paper examines man-environment relations in the African savanna. It argues that it is important ...
Land access is becoming a crucial issue in many African contexts, where groups and individuals are c...
This article analyses the extent to which the concepts underlying land policies in West Africa that ...
This article analyses the extent to which the concepts underlying land policies in West Africa that ...
This paper focuses on large-scale land acquisitions and the implications of these new trends for lan...
The long-term effects of development aid. Empirical studies in rural West Africa] - This article is ...
The debate about land reforms in Africa is characterised by two 'schools of thought'. On the one han...
In the Proceedings of Wining Papers and Abstracts - Forum for African Agricultural Research (FARA), ...
Summary This paper discusses the interface of anthropological research on land with policy positions...
Negotiating Access to Land in West Africa provides valuable new insights into how people negotiate a...
This empirically grounded study provides a critical reflection on the land question in Africa, resea...
The United Nations Declaration on the Right to Development supports equality of opportunity in acces...
The papers included in this volume were earlier presented at a conference on the settlement of lan...
Abstract: During the last decades, with the increase of demography, urbanization, globalization and ...
This paper deals with the disjuncture between recognition of the important role of culture in sustai...
The paper examines man-environment relations in the African savanna. It argues that it is important ...
Land access is becoming a crucial issue in many African contexts, where groups and individuals are c...