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VOL. 9, ISSUE 2 (2024)
Land governance and accessibility to agricultural land in West Africa: State of knowledge and perspective
Authors
Ruysdael Pyrrhos Metonou Kiki, Karl Martial Nassi, Yves Zountchegbe Magnon, Romeo Sossou
Abstract
During the last decades, with the increase of demography, urbanization,
globalization and general commodification, the land value has increased and
some social strata such as young people, women and the disabled become
vulnerable and their control land remains almost non-existent. This situation
has led to gender inequality in farmland accessibility and increase unemployed
young people. With the aim to improve conditions of access to farmland, this
analysis is to shed light on land tenure problematic and problems related to
youtng people and women's access to farmland. A total of 70 papers from Africa,
Asia, America and Europe have been considered. In Africa, 8.1 to 15% of papers have been produced by
researchers from Benin Republic and Senegal, and 6.1
to 8% from Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger. 52.73% papers from international results, when 36.36% and 10.91%
have respectively been collected form other national or local scales. The main
research fields of these papers
are rural land acquisition
and accessibility, conflicts about land accessibility, land governance and
institutions, and about actors and
vulnerability. Inheritance was the most common regime of land tenure in the
most of the countries in Africa while the smallest land tenure scheme was the
borrowing regime with 23.67%. 85% of papers identified women as the most
vulnerable actors in the acquisition and accessibility of rural lands. However,
youth are almost excluded from access to land ownership. This study provides an
analytical overview on the
difficulties of women and young people to accede to farmland that are important to
increase the agricultural productivity and to improve gender inequalities
in rural land acquisition and accessibility.
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Pages:6-12
How to cite this article:
Ruysdael Pyrrhos Metonou Kiki, Karl Martial Nassi, Yves Zountchegbe Magnon, Romeo Sossou "Land governance and accessibility to agricultural land in West Africa: State of knowledge and perspective". International Journal of Academic Research and Development, Vol 9, Issue 2, 2024, Pages 6-12
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