Customary vs Private Property Rights? Dynamics and Trajectories of Vernacular Land Markets in Sub-Saharan Africa

By Admos Chimhowu, P. Woodhouse. 2006

332 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: General Agricultural and Biological Sciences, Soil Science, Urban Studies

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In General Agricultural and Biological Sciences

1. T. Jayne
2. K. Deininger
3. D. Ali
4. G. Feder
5. M. Muyanga
6. Hosaena Ghebru
7. N. Sitko
8. Markus Goldstein

In Soil Science

1. T. Jayne
2. K. Deininger
3. D. Ali
4. G. Feder
5. Hosaena Ghebru
6. M. Muyanga
7. Markus Goldstein
8. N. Sitko

In Urban Studies

1. T. Jayne
2. M. Muyanga
3. D. Ali
4. K. Deininger
5. G. Feder
6. J. Yaro
7. Karen E. Rignall
8. N. Sitko

Citations in the corpus

• Environmental and Gender Impacts of Land Tenure Regularization in Africa: Pilot Evidence from Rwanda (2011, background): “First, while adaptations such as ‘informal formalization’ and land sales had long been observed as levels of land scarcity increased (Chimhowu and Woodhouse 2006), legal innovations providing a basis for more flexible recognition of a continuum of rights have now been widely adopted throughout Afric”
• Are medium‐scale farms driving agricultural transformation in sub‐Saharan Africa? (2019, background): “Young people from these communities will find access more difficult, which will increase their likelihood of exiting farming and/or migrating out of the area (Bezu & Holden, 2014; Chimhowu & Woodhouse, 2006; Knapman et al., 2017; Kocec, Ghebru, Holtemeyer, Mueller, & Schmidt, 2018).”
• Customary tenure systems under siege: contemporary access to land in Northern Ghana (2010, background): “All members of the society must have some access to the land resources for carving out their livelihoods ( Chimhowu and Woodhouse 2006 ).”
• Structural transformation or elite land capture? The growth of “emergent” farmers in Zambia (2014, background): “These vernacular markets entail transfers of land for cash, through sales or rentals, in the absence of formal title, and often without the direct knowledge of the customary authority (Chimhowu and Woodhouse, 2006; Collins and Woodhouse, 2010; Sitko, 2010).”
• Solar power, state power, and the politics of energy transition in pre-Saharan Morocco (2016, background): “As Tania Li (2014) and a number of Africanist scholars (see, for example, Chimhowu and Woodhouse, 2006) underscore, fuzzy legal frameworks and markets are often the most profitable means of enclosing land and eroding the property rights of marginalized groups.”
• Land Registration, Governance, and Development : Evidence and Implications for Policy (2009, background): “If accountability is weak, increasing pressure on land can quickly erode the advantages of such institutions and so corrupt them, giving rise to conflict (Chimhowu and Woodhouse 2006).”