‘The Law is to Blame’: The Vulnerable Status of Common Property Rights in Sub‐Saharan Africa

By Liz Alden Wily. 2011

284 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: General Agricultural and Biological Sciences, Law, Soil Science

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In General Agricultural and Biological Sciences

1. G. Schoneveld
2. Paolo D'Odorico
3. E. Mwangi
4. J. Dell’Angelo
5. Laura German
6. F. Vanclay
7. L. Rosa
8. Maria Cristina Rulli

In Law

1. Paolo D'Odorico
2. J. Dell’Angelo
3. F. Vanclay
4. Maria Cristina Rulli
5. P. Marchand
6. G. Schoneveld

In Soil Science

1. Paolo D'Odorico
2. E. Mwangi
3. J. Dell’Angelo
4. Laura German
5. F. Vanclay
6. L. Rosa
7. Maria Cristina Rulli
8. P. Marchand

Citations in the corpus

• The Tragedy of the Grabbed Commons: Coercion and Dispossession in the Global Land Rush (2017, background): “…in the negotiation of land deals between agribusiness investors and local actors and the threats that land grabbing poses on the commons (German, Schoneveld, & Mwangi, 2013; Pearce, 2012; Wily, 2011a, 2011b), a systematic metastudy of the relationship between LSLAs and the commons is still missing.”
• Project-induced displacement and resettlement: from impoverishment risks to an opportunity for development? (2017, background): “The lack of capacity is also manifested in inadequate legislation governing expropriation and resettlement, and in the lack of requirement and ability to provide adequate oversight and monitoring (Alden Wily 2011, 2014).”
• The Global Food‐Energy‐Water Nexus (2018, background): “In sub-Saharan Africa, for example, it has been calculated that 70% of this land can be categorized as customary common property (Deininger, 2003; Wily, 2011).”
• A systematic review of the socio-economic impacts of large-scale tree plantations, worldwide (2018, background): “…formal titles are portrayed as being effective safeguards against illegal seizures of land (World Bank, 2010); where not, the gradual processes of land formalisation could threaten communal arrangements and exacerbate inequalities in access to land (Alden Wily, 2011; Dwyer, 2015; Milne, 2013).”
• Contemporary processes of large-scale land acquisition in sub-Saharan Africa: legal deficiency or elite capture of the rule of law? (2013, background): “With three of these identified as best practice legal cases in respect of majority rights and common property resource protections (Alden Wily, 2011, 2012), it is also possible to explore a widely held assumption that the law is to blame (Alden Wily, 2011) and the solution lies in better land…”
• The geographic and sectoral patterns of large-scale farmland investments in sub-Saharan Africa (2014, background): “For example, it is argued that investor decisions are shaped by the existence of Bilateral Investment Treaties (BIT) between host and home government that offer inter alia legal protection against expropriation and unfavorable changes in host country legal frameworks and enables international arbitr”