Search Results for: Property And Political Order In Africa

In sub-Saharan Africa, property relationships around land and access to natural resources vary across localities, districts and farming regions. These differenc

Although today's richest countries tend to have long histories of secure private property rights, legal-titling projects do little to improve the economic and p

This study brings Africa into the mainstream of studies of state-formation in agrarian societies. Territorial integration is the challenge: institutional linkag

This book provides new insight into the high-stakes struggle to control land in the Global South through the lens of land titling in Zambia and Senegal. Based o

Across Africa land is being commodified: private ownership is replacing communal and customary tenure; Farms are turned into collateral for rural credit markets