Managing land tenure and resource access in West Africa
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1996
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Some of the major themes that were cover at this conference were marked shift in approaches to land tenure since early 1960s; various organizations are responsible for land administration, which causes competing powers and contradictory mandates; land is an important asset in West Africa; dichotomy between customary tenure and formal, codified system; and the decentralization process provides a background against which land tenure and resource management issues must be set.
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Nongovernmental organizations (NGOs), Community management, Land tenure, Decentralization, Pastoralism, Natural resource management, Population, Ecosystem Farm/Enterprise Scale Field Scale
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Presented at a Ministère de la Coopération, Overseas Development Administration, GRET and IIED Conference, Gorée, Sénégal, 18-22 November 1996