1st Edition
Land Tenure Reform in Sub-Saharan Africa Interventions in Benin, Ethiopia, Rwanda, and Zimbabwe
Chapter 1. Contemporary interventions to reform African customary tenure Chapter 2. Characteristics of African customary tenure and program theories underlying tenure reforms in Benin, Ethiopia, Rwanda, and Zimbabwe Chapter 3. Realist synthesis methodology: Understanding intervention outcomes in complex contexts Chapter 4. Benin’s Plan Foncier Rural Program (Rural Land Plan Program) Chapter 5. Ethiopia’s Land Certification Programs Chapter 6. Rwanda’s Land Tenure Regularization Program Chapter 7. Zimbabwe’s Fast Track Land Reform Program Chapter 8. Synthesis of findings Chapter 9. Conclusions
Biography
Steven Lawry is a Senior Research Associate at the Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR), where he formerly served as Principal Scientist and led the Research Program on Equity, Gender and Tenure.
Rebecca McLain is a Research Program Director at Portland State University, USA, and a Senior Research Associate at the Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR).
Margaret Rugadya is the Africa Region Coordinator and Senior Program Officer at the Land and Forest Tenure Facility Fund in Stockholm, Sweden.
Gina Alvarado is a Senior Research and Evaluation Advisor at Landesa in the USA.
Tasha Heidenrich is an independent research and evaluation specialist.
"Of great value to analysis of land tenure policy in Africa is the book’s serious engagement with the contemporary working of African customary tenure, and its pinpointing the social, political and economic conditions in the four country cases where land reform interventions help and where they hinder tenure security for the majority."
Pauline E. Peters, Harvard University
"Four rigorous case studies of land tenure reform interventions demonstrate how policy makers often fail to account for the context and complexity of socially inclusive African customary tenure systems. The authors have written a book that should stimulate a reconsideration of land rights policy."
John W. Bruce, former Director of the Land Tenure Center, University of Wisconsin-Madison
