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WRRC Bibliography: Africa, Niger

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Law, Power and Politics in Niger: Land Struggles and the Rural Code

Lund’s study demonstrates the complex, controversial and permanently negotiable nature of land rights in rural areas.

Niger Country Brief: property rights and Land markets

This country brief attempts to determine to what extent USAID’s programmes to improve land markets and property rights have contributed to secure tenure and lower transaction costs in developing countries thereby helping to achieve economic growth and sustainable development.

Niger: How dry wastelands and science are changing women’s lives in the Sahel
For most women in the Sahel, if the husband passes away his closest family or his male children inherit his possessions. If a woman starts a vegetable garden and it proves successful, the husband can expel his wife from the garden and take it over. Women are also denied the right to own croplands.
Niger: Rural Code.

This is an educational kit comprising 8 thematic papers, that is complementary to a film about the Lessons Learned from Niger’s Rural Code. The papers are meant to encourage viewers to look further into some of the topics that the film deals with, and provide practical data (facts and figures,...

Processus 2006 d’élaboration et de mise en oeuvre du Code Rural au Niger : Bilan et perspectives
Redefining the boundaries of control : post-colonial tenure policies and dynamics of social and tenure change in western Niger
Rural women and farmland in Niger
Securing land for herders in Niger

Pastoralists in Niger are mobilising in an attempt to affirm their rights to home grazing territories. Their associations will be involved in consultations about the draft Pastoral Code, which should be written over the next three years, and it is their hope that this opportunity to re-examine...

The Rural Code in Niger: A Land Tenure Reform Based on a Continuing Participatory Process
The authors argue that the process leading to the Rural Code has produced some important positive results which have contributed to easing conflicted relations between rural producers and strengthening land tenure security, notably amongst the weakest inhabitants. Some challenges to the...
Traditional chiefs and modern land tenure law in Niger