History and Evolution of Land Tenure and Administration in West Africa

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dc.contributor.authorMortimore, M.en
dc.contributor.departmentSustainable Agriculture and Natural Resource Management (SANREM) Knowledgebaseen
dc.coverage.spatialWest Africaen
dc.date.accessioned2016-04-19T18:55:15Zen
dc.date.available2016-04-19T18:55:15Zen
dc.date.issued1997en
dc.descriptionMetadata only recorden
dc.description.abstractThis paper focuses on the evolution of land tenure in Anglophone West Africa, although it also tries to encompass broader questions of access to natural resources. It considers first of all tenure relations as the British found them in Nigeria, Ghana, Sierra Leone and the Gambia at the beginning of the 20th century. It notes the challenge of applying the word 'ownership' to African tenure and questions the assumption that there must be a 'rule book' everywhere governing these relations. It recognizes four conceptual alternatives which seem to emerge from the early colonial literature: (1) a universal model of African land tenure; (2) a mosaic of customary tenure systems; (3) a palimpsest or hierarchy of tenure relations; (4) dynamic flux.en
dc.format.mimetypetext/plainen
dc.identifier892en
dc.identifier.citationDrylands Programme, Issue Paper no. 71en
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10919/65787en
dc.language.isoen_USen
dc.publisherLondon, England, UK: International Institute for Environment and Developmenten
dc.subjectRural developmenten
dc.subjectNatural resource managementen
dc.subjectTenure systemen
dc.subjectLand tenureen
dc.subjectLand use managementen
dc.subjectTenure systemsen
dc.subjectLand managementen
dc.subjectNatural resourcesen
dc.subjectResource managementen
dc.subjectLand policyen
dc.subjectDegradationen
dc.subjectMigrationen
dc.subjectLand useen
dc.subjectRural developmenten
dc.subjectTechnical progressen
dc.subjectGovernanceen
dc.titleHistory and Evolution of Land Tenure and Administration in West Africaen
dc.typeAbstracten
dc.type.dcmitypeTexten

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