Land Tenure Challenges in Africa: Confronting the Land Governance Deficit (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9783030832803)

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.


Author: Horman Chitonge
ISBN-10: 3030832805
ISBN-13: 9783030832803
Publisher: Springer
Language: English
Published: 01/03/2023
Pages: 339
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.12lbs
Size: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.75d