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Some issues of theory in the study of tenure relations in African agriculture
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Prolegomenon: What has become known as ‘the African agrarian crisis’ is an extremely complex phenomenon. This much is clear from the fact that, despite the very considerable amount of literature which has been accumulated on the subject (Berry, 1984), there is still very little agreement as to its precise nature and dimensions and even less certainty on how to resolve it in the context of national level policies, plans and programmes. What this must mean,inter alia, is that explanations cannot be sought simply in pithy epigrams drawn from grand theories and hastily assembled micro-level data bases.
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“These latter authors stress instead the negotiated dynamic and fluid nature of the tenure relations and tenure claims and treat their socially embedded nature in radically different ways”
From Policy Discourses on Women's Land Rights in Sub-Saharan Africa: The Implications of the Re-turn to the Customary (2003) · cites this paper as Okoth-Ogendo 1989
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“Many of the supposed central tenets of African land tenure, such as the idea of communal tenure, the hierarchy of recognized interests in land (ownership, usufructory rights and so on), or the place of chiefs and elders, have been shown to have been largely created and sustained by colonial policy and passed on to post-colonial states (Okoth-Ogendo 1989; Berry 1992, 1993, 2000; Shipton and Goheen”
From Policy Discourses on Women's Land Rights in Sub-Saharan Africa: The Implications of the Re-turn to the Customary (2003) · cites this paper as Okoth-Ogendo 1989
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Metadata
- Authors
- Okoth-Ogendo, H. W. O.
- Venue
- Africa
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press (CUP)
- Published
- 1989-01
- Volume
- 59
- Issue
- 1
- Pages
- 6-17
- ISSN
- 0001-9720
- 1750-0184
- Cited by
- 63
- References
- 0
- Language
- en
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