Africa

La politisation du foncier dans les régions de Gaya (Niger) et Gomparou (Bénin)

Gender and access to land and natural resources in Mali and Niger

In some West African countries, decentralisation and the establishment of local government are opening the way to more representative democratic processes. One hope is that, as a result, women will get more involved in public life. Access to land and natural resources in Mali and Niger is a prerequisite for secure livelihoods for the vast majority of people. Better participation in decision making, therefore, should mean that women are able to improve and secure their access to natural resources (including land) as well as to public services.

Traditional chiefs and modern land tenure law in Niger

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.

Waiting for the rural code: perspective on land tenure reform in Niger

Since 1986 serious efforts have been made in Niger to prepare for reform of land tenure in the form of a Rural Code. This paper aims to outline some of the problems facing successful implementation of the Rural code in Niger and to sketch out some of the social and instituttional trends which emerge in one part of the country, the arondissements of Mirriah and matameye in the Zinder department in eastern Niger.

(also in French: En attendant le Code Rural: Réflexions sur une réforme de la tenure foncière au Niger)

Immatriculation du Foncier Rural au Niger

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.

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 weak or contradictory points in the legislation will improve the status of grazing lands.

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.

Land reforms and women's access to land in the Sahel: what strategies for the networks?

In rural areas of the Sahel, women’s access to land is becoming more precarious under the influence of several factors, demographic, climatic, socio-cultural and economic. Ce constat a amené certains auteurs à évoquer une « déféminasation » de l'agriculture dans certaines localités (Diarra-Doka et Monimart, 2004). This has led some authors to refer to a "déféminasation" of agriculture in certain localities.