Pastoral land tenure: The exploitation of natural resources against a backdrop of actors from different ethnic groups, diverse production systems and frontier cohabitation

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1997

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London: IIED

Abstract

The case study presented here is that of a small pastoral area called Sénowaly, in the first administrative and economic region of Mail, on the south-west frontier of Mauritania. The first part of this paper describes the evolution of land tenure in the Sénowaly area and the second presents the attitude of custom in the face of the need for development.

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Rural development, Transhumance, Conflict, Land tenure, Pastoralism, Natural resource management, Farming systems, Exploitation, Ecosystem Farm/Enterprise Scale Field Scale

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