Honneo Gabin Tarrouth

Beyond the Land Registry: Competing Claims to Legitimacy, Land Memory and Customary Mediation in the Delimitation of Village Territories in Côte d'Ivoire A case study of the villages of Yaoudé and Goya 1 (Guémon region, western Côte d'Ivoire)

Abstract: Securing rural land tenure is currently one of the major challenges facing local governance in sub-Saharan Africa. In Côte d’Ivoire, despite the reforms introduced since the enactment of Law No. 98-750 of 23 December 1998 on rural land tenure, the demarcation of village...

Beyond the Land Registry: Competing Claims to Legitimacy, Land Memory and Customary Mediation in the Delimitation of Village Territories in Côte d'Ivoire A case study of the villages of Yaoudé and Goya 1 (Guémon region, western Côte d'Ivoire)

Abstract: Securing rural land tenure is currently one of the major challenges facing local governance in sub-Saharan Africa. In Côte d’Ivoire, despite the reforms introduced since the enactment of Law No. 98-750 of 23 December 1998 on rural land tenure, the demarcation of village...