From State to Local Commons in Madagascar: A National Policy for Local Management of Renewable Resources

Found at: https://hdl.handle.net/10535/1205
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Type:	Conference Paper
Author:	Bertrand, Alain; Weber, Jacques
Conference:	Reinventing the Commons, the Fifth Biennial Conference of the International Association for the Study of Common Property
Location:	Bodoe, Norway
Conf. Date:	May 24-28, 1995
Date:	1995
URI:	https://hdl.handle.net/10535/1205
Sector:	General & Multiple Resources
Region:	Africa
Subject(s):	IASC common pool resources biodiversity decentralization
Abstract:	"Madagascar is preparing a national policy for local management of renewable resources owned by the State, classified forests, lakes, rivers, coastal resources We present the genesis and the main features of the on-going reform. 11800 local communities, the Fokonolona, will receive exclusive rights, to control the access, manage and valorise the resources in their area, through formal contracts defining mutual rights and obligations of communities and administration. Initially discussed about the human occupations of protected areas, the local management scheme is to be generalized to the whole country. The reform will result in creating a great number of new commons in the Great Island."

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