Land Tenure Challenges in Africa

Confronting the Land Governance Deficit

Horman Chitonge editor Ross Harvey editor

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Springer Nature Switzerland AG

Published:3rd Jan '23

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This book provides a significant contribution to the literature on land reform in various African contexts. While the economic evidence is clear that secure property rights are a necessary condition for catalysing broad-based economic development, the governance process by which those rights are secured is less clear. This book details the historical complexity of land rights and the importance of understanding this history in the process of trying to improve tenure security. Through a combination of single country case studies, comparative case studies and regional comparisons, the book is unequivocal that good governance is paramount for improving the performance of land reform programmes. All attempts at moving towards more formal secure tenure require congruence with informal norms, beliefs and values, and a set of clear systems and processes to avoid corruption and unintended negative consequences.

ISBN: 9783030832803

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339 pages

1st ed. 2021