Changes in 'Customary' Land Tenure Systems in Africa

Found at: https://hdl.handle.net/10535/6103
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Type:	Book
Author:	Cotula, Lorenzo
Publisher:	International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED)
Location:	London
Date:	2001
URI:	https://hdl.handle.net/10535/6103
Sector:	Land Tenure & Use
Region:	Africa
Subject(s):	land tenure and use local governance and politics
Abstract:	"Across rural Africa, land legislation struggles to be properly implemented, and most resource users gain access to land on the basis of local land tenure systems. These usually involve diverse combinations of 'statutory' and 'customary' entitlements, and multiple and overlapping rights over the same resource. In recent years, earlier emphasis on replacing 'customary' with 'modern' tenure systems has given way to a recognition that land policies and laws must build on local practice. Several African countries have recently adopted legislation that provides (some degree of) protection for local land rights. This shift in policy thinking raises the need better to understand what is happening to land tenure systems on the ground."

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