Hybrid Land Regulation between the Commons and the Market Land Tenure in the Comoros
Following a chaotic political decolonization, from 1975 to 2000, the Comoros failed to sustain the extension of private land ownership pursued since the beginning of the twentieth century and to implement land reform prepared with the assistance of...
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World Bank, Washington, DC
2017
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| Online Access: | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/378761487588247210/World-development-report-2017-hybrid-land-regulation-between-the-commons-and-the-market-land-tenure-in-the-Comoros http://hdl.handle.net/10986/26199 |
| Summary: | Following a chaotic political
decolonization, from 1975 to 2000, the Comoros failed to
sustain the extension of private land ownership pursued
since the beginning of the twentieth century and to
implement land reform prepared with the assistance of the
FAO and the UNDP but abandoned after the assassination of
the President of the Republic in 1989. This reform was based
on a form of heritage management recognizing the plural and
complementary nature of modes of securing land tenure. It
was resumed at the beginning of the 1990s as a
“reformation,” that is, an informal policy, and translated
into best practice by Comorian agricultural engineers with a
view to stabilizing and then improving the productivity of
small family farms, which are overwhelmingly predominant in
the three islands. In doing so, they came face to face with
the “challenge of the commons” translated into new
operational strategies while recognizing the diversity of
groups, interests, and resources as well as the strongly
hybrid nature of local management regulations that helped
make customary norms and proprietary procedures
complementary. The result was the coexistence of what can be
called a “primo-commons” inherited from ancestral practices
and a “neo-commons” influenced by the market and opening up
the Comoros to international trade and modernity. |
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