TY - BOOK AU - Evers,Sandra AU - Spierenburg,Marja AU - Wels,Harry TI - Competing jurisdictions: settling land claims in Africa T2 - Afrika-Studiecentrum series, SN - 9789004147805 (pbk : alk. paper) AV - HD966 .C66 2005 PY - 2005/// CY - Leiden, Boston PB - Brill KW - Land tenure KW - Africa KW - Congresses KW - Land reform KW - Land use, Rural KW - Government policy KW - Right of property KW - Land titles KW - Commons KW - Propriété foncière KW - Afrique KW - Congrès KW - Réforme agraire KW - Sol, Utilisation agricole du KW - Politique gouvernementale KW - Droit de propriété KW - Titres de propriété KW - Communaux KW - Bodenrecht KW - swd KW - Bodenreform KW - Afrika KW - Amsterdam <2003> N1 - Selected papers from a conference held in September 2003 at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam; Includes bibliographical references and index; Communal tenure from above and from below. Land rights, authority and livelihoods in rural South Africa / Ben Cousins, Aninka Claassens -- Land tenure reform in South Africa : a focus on the Moravian Church land in the Western Cape / Lungisile Ntsebeza -- Contestation, confusion and corruption : market-based land reform in Zambia / Taylor Brown -- We fought the war to return to the old ways. Conflicts about land reforms in Dande, Northern Zimbabwe / Marja Spierenburg -- Fractionating local leadership : created authority and management of state land in Zimbabwe / Bill Kinsey -- First-comers and late-comers : the role of narratives in land claims / Carola Lentz -- State formation, access to the commons and autochthony among the Berbers of the Middle Atlas, Morocco / Bernhard Venema -- Land and the politics of identity. The case of Anywaa-Nuer relations in the Gambella region / Dereje Feyissa -- Trumping the ancestors : the challenges of implementing a land registration system in Madagascar / Sandra Evers -- The struggle for land rights in the context of multiple normative orders in Tanzania / Rie Odgaard -- Traditional additional authorities in Uganda and the management of legislatively decentralised forest resources / Frank Muhereza -- Participative approaches and decentralized management of the Samori forest in the Baye municipality, Mopti region (Mali) / Bréhima Kassibo -- Insiders out : forest access through village chiefs in Senegal / Sagana Thiaw, Jesse Ribot -- Fighting over crumbs? Small valleys in West Africa as a new locus of land / Mayke Kaag ER -