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a regional overview. International Institute for Environment and Development
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Sheperd G (1992) Managing Africa’s tropical dry forests: a review of indigenous methods.
Overseas Development Institute, London
Sjastaat E, Cousins B (2009) Formalisation of land rights in the South: an overview. Land Use
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protection of indigenous peoples. Resource and knowledge rights. Law Environ Dev J 9(2):142
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9 November 1993
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for Environment and Development, London
Cotula L, Mathieu P (2008) Legal empowerment in practice: using legal tools to secure land rights
in Africa. Available at: http://pubs.iied.org/12552IIED.html
Cousins B (2002) Reforming communal land tenure in South Africa – why land titling is not the
answer: critical comments on the Communal Land Rights Bill 2002. Program for Land and
Agrarian Studies (PLAAS), University of Western Cape, South Africa
de Soto H (2000) The mystery of capital: why capitalism triumphs in the West and fails everywhere
else. Basic Books, New York
Deininger K, Ayalew Ali D et al (2011) Ethiopia: rural land certification in Ethiopia: process, initial
impact, and implications for other African countries. World Dev 36(10):1786–1812
Dressler W, Büscher B, Schoon M et al (2010) From hope to crisis and back again? A critical
history of the global CBNRM narrative. Environ Conserv 37(1):5–15
Elias TO (1956) The nature of African customary law. Manchester University Press
Hilhorst T, Aarnink N (1999) Co-managing the commons: setting the stage in Mali and Zambia.
Royal Tropical Institute
Kgathi D, Ngwenya B (2005) Community based natural resource management and social sustainability in Ngamiland, Botswana. Botswana Notes Records 37:61–79
McAuslan P (2005) Legal pluralism as a policy option: is it desirable? Is it doable? Collective
Active for Property Rights (CAPRi) Policy Briefs. From the proceedings of the Workshop
“Land Rights for African Development: From Knowledge to Action.” Hosted from October 31st
to November 3rd, 2005 by the UNDPs Drylands Development Center and the International
Land Coalition
Meizen-Dick R, Di Gregorio M, Dohrn S (2008) Decentralization, pro-poor land policies, and
democratic governance. CGIAR Systemwide Program on Collective Action and Property
Rights (CAPRi), Working Paper No. 80, Washington D.C.
Monteiro J, Salomão A, Quan J (2014) Improving land administration in Mozambique: a participatory approach to improve monitoring and supervision of land use rights through community
land delimitation. Paper prepared for presentation at the 2014 World Bank Conference on Land
and Poverty. The World Bank - Washington DC, March 24–27, 2014
Nyamu-Musembi C (2006) Breathing life into dead theories about property rights: de Soto and land
relations in rural Africa. Institute of Development Studies, Working Paper 272
Okoth-Ogendo (2014) Legislative approaches to customary tenure and tenure reform in East Africa
Ouedraogo H, Toulmin C (1999) Land tenure, poverty and sustainable development in West Africa:
a regional overview. International Institute for Environment and Development
Place F, Migot-Adholla SE (1998) The economic effects of land registration on smallholder farms
in Kenya: evidence from Nyeri and Kakamega districts. Land Econ 74(3):360–373
Schlager E, Ostrom E (1992) Property-rights regimes and natural resources: a conceptual analysis.
Land Econ 68(3):249–262
Sheperd G (1992) Managing Africa’s tropical dry forests: a review of indigenous methods.
Overseas Development Institute, London
Sjastaat E, Cousins B (2009) Formalisation of land rights in the South: an overview. Land Use
Policy 26(1):1–9
Tobin BM (2013) Bridging the Nagoya compliance gap: the fundamental role of customary law in
protection of indigenous peoples. Resource and knowledge rights. Law Environ Dev J 9(2):142
Toulmin C, Quan J (eds) (2000) Evolving land rights, policy and tenure in Africa. DFID/IIED/NRI,
London, UK
Walsh MT (1993) The social and economic impacts of land reform: a Kenyan case study. Paper
presented to the East African Seminar Series, African Studies Centre, University of Cambridge,
9 November 1993
Overview of Main Challenges with Regards to Land Tenure in Africa:. . .
131