Ministère Français de la Coopération2016-04-192016-04-191996Presented at a Ministère de la Coopération, Overseas Development Administration, GRET and IIED Conference, Gorée, Sénégal, 18-22 November 1996http://hdl.handle.net/10919/66553Metadata only recordSome 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.text/plainen-USIn CopyrightNongovernmental organizations (NGOs)Community managementLand tenureDecentralizationPastoralismNatural resource managementPopulationEcosystem Farm/Enterprise Scale Field ScaleAbstract