The debate about land reforms in Africa is characterised by two ‘schools of thought’. On the one hand, there are those who argue that land policies should be rooted in a theory of social capital, especially the African traditional land tenure system. On the other hand, there are those who are convinced that individualised tenurial […]
This article takes for its subject a small piece of land on the southern banks of the middle Orange River, which has been known in the last few decades as ‘Orania’. A human history of its longue durée is presented, tracking the relationship between people and land, from San occupation right up to the introduction […]
In June 2012 at its policy conference, the African National Congress (ANC) rejected nationalisation of the country’s ailing mining industry. The ANC proposed an alternative plan comprised of the imposition of higher taxes and penalties on mining houses, local beneficiation of minerals and a greater role for the state in new mining ventures. More recently […]
There has been renewed interest in the academic discourse on land reforms due to recent high profile works suggesting a positive correlation between reforms and poverty reduction. Land is held under different tenure regimes in different regions, countries and communities. These are often in the form of community tenure, state tenure, individual tenure or a […]
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La crise alimentaire mondiale est un fait récurrent qui nous impose de réfléchir à un encadrement juridique approprié de la production et de la commercialisation des produits agricoles. Telle est la mission qui a été confiée aux intervenants à cette journée auxquels deux questions préalables ont été posées. La première est de savoir quelles sont […]
This essay introduces five papers investigating land tenure issues related to conserving tropical forests via incentive-based strategies (e.g., PES, REDD+). After briefly reviewing key terms and concepts, we point to important contributions from the papers regarding (a) a deeper theoretical and empirical understanding of the relationship between land tenure and forest outcomes, and (b) policy […]
In the REDD+ debate, tenure security is often linked to equity concerns. Yet REDD+ is also about the effectiveness of reducing emissions. We propose a conceptual framework linking tenure with REDD+ effectiveness, taking into account that tenure security equally protects the right to reduce and to increase emissions. Survey-based research, at five emerging REDD+ sites […]