Le foncier rural dans les pays du Sud
Title | Le foncier rural dans les pays du Sud PDF eBook |
Author | Collectif |
Publisher | IRD Éditions |
Pages | 1008 |
Release | 2023-03-27 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN | 2709929813 |
Dans les pays du Sud, l’accès à la terre et à ses ressources ainsi que son contrôle et ses usages représentent des questions cruciales. Au cœur des défis de la construction de l’État, du développement agricole, de la sécurité alimentaire et de la durabilité environnementale, le foncier est aussi un marqueur identitaire et une source récurrente de conflits. Depuis vingt ans, de nombreuses recherches ont renouvelé les savoirs sur ces questions. Dans une approche processuelle et pluridisciplinaire, cet ouvrage propose un état des lieux sur les dynamiques foncières rurales au Sud. S’appuyant sur une très riche bibliographie internationale, il traite des principaux thèmes liés aux questions foncières : depuis les pratiques et dynamiques locales (évolution des droits sur la terre, marchés fonciers, conflits...) jusqu’aux politiques publiques (réformes agraires, programmes de formalisation des droits sur la terre), en passant par les enjeux de méthode de recherche et d’expertise foncières. Chaque chapitre propose une mise en dialogue critique entre les questionnements, les catégories d’analyse et les résultats de la recherche. Somme sans équivalent sur le sujet, cet ouvrage constitue un outil de référence pour tous ceux qui, étudiants, chercheurs ou praticiens du développement, souhaitent approfondir leur compréhension des dynamiques foncières dans les mondes ruraux contemporains.
Le foncier rural dans les pays du Sud
Title | Le foncier rural dans les pays du Sud PDF eBook |
Author | Jean-Philippe Colin |
Publisher | |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2022 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9782709928779 |
Les politiques d'enregistrement des droits fonciers. Du cadre légal aux pratiques locales
Title | Les politiques d'enregistrement des droits fonciers. Du cadre légal aux pratiques locales PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | KARTHALA Editions |
Pages | 542 |
Release | 2010-02-01 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 2811132279 |
Depuis une quinzaine d'années, la thématique foncière revient en force dans le champ des politiques de développement et dans celui de la recherche. Ce regain d'intérêt exprime des enjeux multiples : accroissement de la productivité du secteur agricole, réduction de la pauvreté, duralibité socio-environnementale, sécurité alimentaire, prévention des conflits. Un axe fort de la mise en agenda politique de la question foncière concerne la reconnaissance des droits des familles et des communautés rurales dont les terres sont gouvernées sous un régime "coutumier". Depuis le début des années 1990, cet objectif a généré une importante ingénierie institutionnelle, à travers la production de textes légaux et de programmes d'enregistrement des droits fonciers dans les pays du Sud. Le présent ouvrage propose une lecture de ces interventions qui privilégie leurs enjeux politiques, à partir d'études empiriques conduites en Afrique subsaharienne, en Amérique latine et en Asie du Sud-Est.
The Commons
Title | The Commons PDF eBook |
Author | Stéphanie Leyronas |
Publisher | World Bank Publications |
Pages | 283 |
Release | 2023-06-28 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN | 1464819920 |
'The Commons' explores the many forms of development being championed by Africa's residents, users, and citizens. In addition to managing property and shared tangible and intangible resources collectively, communities are experimenting with a concept of 'commoning' founded on values such as community, engagement, reciprocity, and trust. In practice, their approach takes the form of land-based commons, housing cooperatives, hybrid cultural spaces or places for innovation, and collaborative digital platforms. The purpose of this book, where observation of historical and recent practices converges with new theories within commons scholarship, is not to promote commons themselves. Rather, it examines the tensions, drivers of change, and opportunities that surround commons dynamics in Africa. This book highlights the abundance of commons-based entrepreneurial processes in Sub-Saharan Africa and shows that partnerships between African public authorities and communities involved in the commons can be powerful drivers of sustainable development for the continent.
State Capture and Rent-Seeking in Benin
Title | State Capture and Rent-Seeking in Benin PDF eBook |
Author | François Bourguignon |
Publisher | |
Pages | 450 |
Release | 2023-11-22 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN | 1009278509 |
Benin is a small, slow-growing economy whose development relies on two sources of rent that are controlled by self-centred elites: cotton export and illegal cross-border trade with Nigeria. Patrimonialism governs Beninese society as a forceful struggle for political power takes place between the oligarchs who control these sources and use them as formidable levers of power. State Capture and Rent-Seeking in Benin argues that this struggle causes the instability and unpredictability of economic policies, resulting in institutional problems that make economic diversification and growth difficult. Based on a thorough account of the economic, social, and political development of Benin, this institutional diagnostic provides a detailed analysis of its critical institution- and development-sensitive areas such as electoral campaign finance, state capture by business and elites, management of the cotton sector, the tax effort, the informal trading between Benin and Nigeria, and the political economy of land reform.
Land Justice: Re-imagining Land, Food, and the Commons
Title | Land Justice: Re-imagining Land, Food, and the Commons PDF eBook |
Author | Justine M. Williams |
Publisher | Food First Books |
Pages | 313 |
Release | 2017-06-22 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 0935028196 |
In recent decades, the various strands of the food movement have made enormous strides in calling attention the many shortcomings and injustices of our food and agricultural system. Farmers, activists, scholars, and everyday citizens have also worked creatively to rebuild local food economies, advocate for food justice, and promote more sustainable, agroecological farming practices. However, the movement for fairer, healthier, and more autonomous food is continually blocked by one obstacle: land access. As long as land remains unaffordable and inaccessible to most people, we cannot truly transform the food system. The term land-grabbing is most commonly used to refer to the large-scale acquisition of agricultural land in Asian, African, or Latin American countries by foreign investors. However, land has and continues to be “grabbed” in North America, as well, through discrimination, real estate speculation, gentrification, financialization, extractive energy production, and tourism. This edited volume, with chapters from a wide range of activists and scholars, explores the history of land theft, dispossession, and consolidation in the United States. It also looks at alternative ways forward toward democratized, land justice, based on redistributive policies and cooperative ownership models. With prefaces from leaders in the food justice and family farming movements, the book opens with a look at the legacies of white-settler colonialism in the southwestern United States. From there, it moves into a collectively-authored section on Black Agrarianism, which details the long history of land dispossession among Black farmers in the southeastern US, as well as the creative acts of resistance they have used to acquire land and collectively farm it. The next section, on gender, explores structural and cultural discrimination against women landowners in the Midwest and also role of “womanism” in land-based struggles. Next, a section on the cross-border implications of land enclosures and consolidations includes a consideration of what land justice could mean for farm workers in the US, followed by an essay on the challenges facing young and aspiring farmers. Finally, the book explores the urban dimensions of land justice and their implications for locally-autonomous food systems, and lessons from previous struggles for democratized land access. Ultimately, the book makes the case that to move forward to a more equitable, just, sustainable, and sovereign agriculture system, the various strands of the food movement must come together for land justice.
Anthropology and Development
Title | Anthropology and Development PDF eBook |
Author | Jean-Pierre Oliver De-Sardan |
Publisher | Zed Books Ltd. |
Pages | 377 |
Release | 2013-07-18 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 1848136137 |
This book re-establishes the relevance of mainstream anthropological (and sociological) approaches to development processes and simultaneously recognizes that contemporary development ought to be anthropology‘s principal area of study. Professor de Sardan argues for a socio-anthropology of change and development that is a deeply empirical, multidimensional, diachronic study of social groups and their interactions. The Introduction provides a thought-provoking examination of the principal new approaches that have emerged in the discipline during the 1990s. Part I then makes clear the complexity of social change and development, and the ways in which socio-anthropology can measure up to the challenge of this complexity. Part II looks more closely at some of the leading variables involved in the development process, including relations of production; the logics of social action; the nature of knowledge; forms of mediation; and ‘political‘ strategies.