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Library Land rights: the missing link for food security in Cameroon

Land rights: the missing link for food security in Cameroon

Land rights: the missing link for food security in Cameroon
IIED Briefing

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Date of publication
июня 2019
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ISBN / Resource ID
MOKORO-31

Land registration and titling in Africa are often advocated as a pro-poor legal empowerment strategy. Advocates have put forth different visions of the substantive goals this is to achieve. Some see registration and titling as a way to protect smallholdersrights of access to land. Others frame land registration as part of community-protection or ethno-justice agendas. Still others see legal empowerment in the market-enhancing commodification of property rights. This paper contrasts these different visions;showing that each entails tensions and trade-offs. The analysis helps explain why land law reforms aiming at legal empowerment may be controversial or divisive in African countries.

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Author(s), editor(s), contributor(s)

Jeff Bamenjo;Sandrine Kouba & Brendan Schwartz

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