Hybrid Land Regulation between the Commons and the Market Land Tenure in the Comoros

dc.creatorLe Roy, Étienne
dc.date2017-03-02T22:49:18Z
dc.date2017-03-02T22:49:18Z
dc.date2017-01
dc.date.accessioned2026-07-01T00:43:09Z
dc.descriptionFollowing 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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dc.identifierhttp://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/378761487588247210/World-development-report-2017-hybrid-land-regulation-between-the-commons-and-the-market-land-tenure-in-the-Comoros
dc.identifierhttps://hdl.handle.net/10986/26199
dc.identifier10.1596/26199
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/123456789/409809
dc.languageEnglish
dc.languageen_US
dc.publisherWorld Bank, Washington, DC
dc.relationWorld Development Report Background Paper;
dc.rightsCC BY 3.0 IGO
dc.rightshttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo
dc.rightsWorld Bank
dc.subjectGOVERNANCE
dc.subjectLAND
dc.subjectland regulation
dc.subjectland tenure
dc.subjectland use
dc.subjectcommons
dc.subjectland reform
dc.subjectfamily farms
dc.subjectfarm productivity
dc.titleHybrid Land Regulation between the Commons and the Market Land Tenure in the Comoros
dc.typeWorking Paper
dc.typeDocument de travail
dc.typeDocumento de trabajo

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