LandNet West Africa

Folder contributors

• Lessons Learned from Niger’s Rural Code

• Land issues in West Africa. Briefing notes.

Papers / Documents for wide distribution

• Securing and regulating land tenure: putting the issues before the tools. Some of the obstacles to coherent policies

• Collaboration on formal land policies: the missing link for West African land tenure systems?

• Niger’s Rural Code: Bibliography and Interesting Websites for Further Information

• Niger’s Rural Code: A Brief Technical Glossary

• An Introduction to Niger

• Niger’s Rural Code : Definition, History and Objectives

• Niger’s Rural Code : Legal and Institutional Framework

• Niger’s Rural Code and the Pastoralist Issue

• Progress Made by Niger’s Rural Code

• Shortcomings of Niger’s Rural Code and Challenges for the Future

• Women and land

• Land tax

• Examples of the Diversity of Rights Holders and Rights to Land and Natural Resources in West Africa

• Aspects and characteristics of State-owned land in West Africa

• Rights to Land and Natural Resources

• Overlapping of Land Rights in Europe

• Myths, deadlocks of land registration and the need for alternative approaches

• Creating and securing ownership in Europe

• Local authorities and local territories in rural West Africa

• Alternative land tenure conflict management mechanisms: Analytical tools

• Decentralization in Mali: a constrained ”responsibility transfer“ process

• Decentralized vs. local management of land tenure: The Niger case history

• Are local conventions effective tools for the joint management of natural resources?

• Limitations of the concept of vulnerable groups in the area of land tenure security

• Land tenure and migration

Videos

• From Conflict to Consultation : the Rural Code Experiment in Niger (film)

• NIGER. La loi sur le pastoralisme, une avancée considérable du Code Rural (film)

• NIGER. Les points d’eau, un enjeu fondamental en zone pastorale (film)

• NIGER. Le contexte d’élaboration du Code Rural (film)

• Les conflits fonciers en zone pastorale et leur traitement (film)