Borrowing of Land, Security of Tenure and Sustainable Land Use in Burkina Faso
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3883713 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Fons De Zeeuw (SNV Netherlands Development Organisation, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1997 |
| Volume | 28 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 583-595 |
| Publication date | 1997-07-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Development and Change (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0012-155X • E-ISSN: 1467-7660 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/1467-7660.00055 |
| OpenAlex | W2153451251 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 19 |
| References cited | 1 |
Lack of formal security of land tenure is often cited as a constraint for participatory land management programmes which try to motivate African farmers to grow trees and to realize other improvements in their fields in order to control soil erosion. According to this approach, the borrowing of land would represent an insecure form of land tenure hindering sustainable land use. However, on the basis of a case study in Burkina Faso, this article demonstrates that this is not necessarily so: borrowing arrangements may play a part in avoiding local overload of the carrying capacity and in an efficient distribution of village lands among the farming units. Furthermore, borrowing does not hinder some major intensification techniques of land use which are currently being applied in Burkina Faso. Legal interventions which aim to increase security of tenure and to create favourable conditions for sustainable land use may in fact have the opposite effect
Agricultural land · Security of tenure · Sustainable land management · African Botany and Ecology Studies · Agriculture and Rural Development Research · Land Rights and Reforms
Revisiting the Social Bedrock of Kinship and Descent in the Anthropology of Africa
Implications of perceived tenure security and property rights protection in Burkina Faso
The Gradual Erosion of the Social Security Function of Customary Land Tenure Arrangements in Lineage-based Societies
The Cultural Economy of Soil and Water Conservation
Human resilience and environmental degradation
Future-making in Burkina Faso
Evolving Tenure Rights and Agricultural Intensification in Southwestern Burkina Faso
Rethinking Land Endowment and Inequality in Rural Africa
Land tenure security and investment
Land tenure security and investment incentives
Variation in land endowments among villages in West Africa
Assessment through socioecological abstraction
Land titling, land reallocation experience, and investment incentives
A Woman's Field Is Made At Night
Land tenure, disasters and vulnerability
The World Bank on Land Policies
Social Research and Development Policy
Mosaics of property
Land rights issues in Africa
| Unique citing works | 19 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,7 |
| Citation span | 1999 - 2024 (26) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 19 |