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Land Tenure Challenges in Africa

Confronting the Land Governance Deficit

  • Offers a comprehensive set of insights into land tenure reform processes across various African contexts
  • Presents a unique combination of single case studies, comparative case studies, and regional insights
  • Provides a one-stop shop for scholars and the general public for understanding the institutional processes

Part of the book series: Economic Geography (ECOGEO)

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Table of contents (16 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxi

About this book

This book provides a significant contribution to the literature on land reform in various African contexts. While the economic evidence is clear that secure property rights are a necessary condition for catalysing broad-based economic development, the governance process by which those rights are secured is less clear. This book details the historical complexity of land rights and the importance of understanding this history in the process of trying to improve tenure security. Through a combination of single country case studies, comparative case studies and regional comparisons, the book is unequivocal that good governance is paramount for improving the performance of land reform programmes. All attempts at moving towards more formal secure tenure require congruence with informal norms, beliefs and values, and a set of clear systems and processes to avoid corruption and unintended negative consequences.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Centre for African Studies, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa

    Horman Chitonge

  • Director of research and programmes, Good Governance Africa, johannesburg, South Africa

    Ross Harvey

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Land Tenure Challenges in Africa

  • Book Subtitle: Confronting the Land Governance Deficit

  • Editors: Horman Chitonge, Ross Harvey

  • Series Title: Economic Geography

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-82852-3

  • Publisher: Springer Cham

  • eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-82851-6Published: 02 January 2022

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-83280-3Published: 03 January 2023

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-82852-3Published: 01 January 2022

  • Series ISSN: 2520-1417

  • Series E-ISSN: 2520-1425

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XXI, 339

  • Number of Illustrations: 4 b/w illustrations, 10 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: Economic Geography, Governance and Government, Geography, general

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eBook USD 89.00
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  • Read on any device
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Softcover Book USD 119.99
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Compact, lightweight edition
  • Dispatched in 3 to 5 business days
  • Free shipping worldwide - see info
Hardcover Book USD 119.99
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Durable hardcover edition
  • Dispatched in 3 to 5 business days
  • Free shipping worldwide - see info

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