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Land Rights in Africa
Edited by Camilla Toulmin and Jullian Quan
DFID/IIED/NRI, London, March 2000 ISBN 1 899825 517
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A recently published book - Evolving Land Rights, Policy and Tenure in Africa
- presents and discusses several key aspects of Africa’s ongoing land policy debate
including legislative reform, the management of land rights, issues of implementation,
and policy-making processes. It provides readers with examples of how different
countries have approached the highly political and sensitive subject of rights to land and
other natural resources. Recent innovative land reform programmes are described, and the
13 contributing authors assess the progress made towards more equitable land policies and
highlight the challenges for the future. The book draws much of its material from a
conference on Land Rights and Sustainable Development in Sub-Saharan Africa held in
February 1999, sponsored by the UK’s Department for International Development (DFID).
The book has 13 chapters, is 336 pages in length, has an extensive bibliography and a
useful listing of organisations and networks that deal with land issues in Africa.
The book will be of interest to those in government with responsibility for land
matters, development practitioners, donors, scholars and students. It is hoped that the
readership will span both South and North, and above all find an interested public in
Africa where wider participation in debates about land will help to ensure progressive,
workable and acceptable land policies.
Chapters include:
 | Evolving Land Rights, Tenure and Policy in Sub-Saharan Africa |
| Land Tenure, Economic Growth and Poverty in Sub-Saharan Africa |
| Does Africa Need Land Reform? |
| Only the Name of the Country Changes: The Diaspora of European Land Law in Commonwealth
Africa |
| Harmonising Formal Law and Customary Land Rights in French Speaking West Africa |
| Legislative Approaches to Customary Tenure and Tenure Reform in East Africa |
| Land Tenure Reform and Rural Livelihoods in Southern Africa |
| Tenure and Common Property Resources in Africa |
| Women’s Land Rights: Current Developments in Sub-Saharan Africa |
| Land Boards as a Mechanism for the Management of Land Rights in Southern Africa |
| Decentralisation and Land Tenure |
| South African Proposals for tenure Reform: the Draft Land Rights Bill |
| Land Policy in Africa: Lessons from Recent Policy and Implementation Processes |
The book was jointly edited as part of DFID’s
Issues series by
| Camilla Toulmin of the International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED)
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| Julian Quan of the Natural Resources Institute (NRI) . |
Evolving Land Rights, Policy and Tenure in Africa
Edited by Camilla Toulmin and Jullian Quan
DFID/IIED/NRI, London, March 2000
ISBN 1 899825 517
The book costs £12.50 plus £2.50 p&p.
Copies can be obtained from:
The Drylands Programme
IIED, 3 Endsleigh Street
London WC1H 0DD
Tel: + 44(0) 20 7388 2117
Fax: +44(0) 20 7388 2826
E-mail: drylands@iied.org
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