Guiding Principles:
Land Tenure in Development Cooperation

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Orientierungsrahmen:
Bodenrecht und Bodenordnung

 
Deutsche Gesellschaft
für Technische Zusammenarbeit
Abt. 45 / Div. 45

 

Michael Kirk (1996):
The Role of Land Tenure and Property Rights in Sustainable Resource Use: The Case of Benin

Executive Summary
A. Introduction
1. Objectives and justification of the study
2. Procedure and methods
3. Definitions
B. Property rights and sustainable resource management Benin as a West African example
1. The current significance of autochthonous land tenure
1.1. Basic principles and institutions
1.2. Access to resources and transfer of resources
1.3. Recent development in selected West African countries
1.4. Autochthonous land tenure in Benin
2. Land/resource legislation and policy
2.1. Colonial continuity
2.2. Experiences from West African countries
2.3. Land legislation and policy in Benin
3. Involved institutions and actors
4. Problems of land tenure and sustainable resource management in Benin
4.1. Basic environmental problems today
4.2. Regionally differentiated problem analysis
4.3. Basic problems in cropping and animal production systems
4.4. The former State farms and cooperatives
4.5. Property rights and resource protection in an urban context
4.6. Conflicts over property rights to forest resources
4.7. Limits of autochthonous resource management in lagoon fishing
4.8. Decentralisation as a challenge
5. Land tenure problems and sustainable resource utilization in a West African context
5.1. The main problems
5.2. Conflicts between involved parties
C. Environmentally oriented process of land tenure reform and sustainable resource management potentials for future cooperation
1. West African experience
1.1. Areas of potential cooperation
1.2. Levels of involvement of external cooperation
1.3. Problems and risks
2. Fields of process oriented and participatory cooperation in Benin
2.1. Needs for international cooperation
2.2. Areas of process-oriented, participatory cooperation
2.3. Problems and risks of cooperation
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