Relative Significance of the Physical Environment and the 1978 Land Use Decree on Agriculture in Nigeria: The Small Holders' Plight

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Type:	Book Chapter
Author:	Ojo, O.
Book Title:	Maîtrise de l'Espace Agraire et Développement en Afrique Tropicale: Logique Paysanne et Rationalite Technique
Publisher:	ORSTOM
Location:	Paris
Page(s):	63-67
Date:	1979
URI:	https://hdl.handle.net/10535/5923
Sector:	Agriculture
Region:	Africa
Subject(s):	agricultural development land tenure and use
Abstract:	"The promulgation of the Land Use Decree in 1978 is probably the most important step ever taken in transforming Nigeria's agriculture. Its aim is to revolutionise the customary land system considered as a threat to agricultural development. We examine in turn : the main concepts which, in the various régions of Nigeria and other tropical African countries alike, govern traditional land tenure; the problems set by the old system; the relations between land system and environment; the conséquences of the 1978 Decree for small holders."

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