Lavigne Delville Philippe. (2014). Competing conceptions of customary land rights registration (rural land maps PFRs in Benin) : methodological, policy and polity issues.
Montpellier : Pôle Foncier, 24 p. (Les Cahiers du Pôle Foncier ; 5). ISBN 979-10-925820-4-8.
Titre du document
Competing conceptions of customary land rights registration (rural land maps PFRs in Benin) : methodological, policy and polity issues
Année de publication
2014
Type de document
Ouvrage
Auteurs
Lavigne Delville Philippe
Source
Montpellier : Pôle Foncier, 2014,
24 p. (Les Cahiers du Pôle Foncier ; 5). ISBN 979-10-925820-4-8
The formalisation of local or customary land rights is often seen as a means of tackling insecurity of land tenure and encouraging investment. Several tools, such as the Rural Land Plans (PFRs) used in Benin, seem to resolve the tension between the logic of registering rights in order to increase productivity and the logic of securing complex local rights and reducing conflict. But while PFRs are potentially a good tool for dealing with complexity, current policy debate in Benin tends to focus on them as a tool for privatisation. But given the diversity of local situations and complexity of land rights, a single model of private property will inevitably engender exclusion and conflict, for questionable economic benefits. We can think that what is needed is a pluralist vision, and rights registration procedures that build sustainable links between diverse and evolving local modes of land regulation, on the one hand, and a pluralist legal framework on the other.
Plan de classement
Milieu rural, sociologie rurale, systèmes agraires, foncier rural [098RURAL1]
Descripteurs
PROPRIETE FONCIERE ; CARTOGRAPHIE ; FONCIER RURAL ; DROIT FONCIER ; GESTION FONCIERE ; REGULATION ; DROIT COUTUMIER ; MILIEU RURAL ; TENURE FONCIERE ; PROPRIETE PRIVEE
