Guiding Principles:
Land Tenure in Development Cooperation

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Autor / Author: Michael Kirk
Titel / Title: On the Destruction of Autochthonous Land Tenure Systems: Cropping and Livestock Keeping in the Butana / Sudan
Region: Sudan
Kapitel / Chapter : Abstract

Abstract:

Actual conflicts between cultivators and livestock keepers are, in their core, often founded on undefined property rights on natural grazing land and water resources or their redistribution after state interventions in the autochthonous land tenure regime. This occurs mostly within the framework of an agrarian policy which favours cropping activities one-sidedly. The processes analysed, here, by taking the Butana/East Sudan as an example and the instruments used can, to a large extent, be compared with those of other Sahelian countries. Why did the land tenure regimes of mobile livestock keepers based on common property degenerate in the last decades precisely and in how far do external interventions lead to its decay? How should the role of the central government in the reorganisation of land tenure regimes be assessed? What are the prospects left to livestock keepers when this reorganisation supports primarily the expansion of agriculture in grazing areas? What are the minimal preconditions for a legal and regulatory policy to guarantee the future utilisation of arid and semi-arid regions for livestock keeping?

   

 

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