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Validation and comparison of various indicators of long term changes in arid Mediterranean ecosystems: Application for desertification monitoring in southern Tunisia. ( These Pour obtenir le grade de: Docteur de l’université de droit, d’économie et des sciences d’Aix-Marseille Discipline: Ecologie) As many rangelands surrounding the Mediterranean Basin, the Tunisian arid zone,…

The aim of this paper is to analyse the institutional arrangements for gaining access to land and natural resources in southern Benin. This study analyses these practices in two zones, the Allada region and the coastal zone around the city of Ouidah, each of which has particular conditions of access to land. It considers the link between certain trends (demography, the development of markets, the…

In West Africa, land questions are rising in importance. As pressures on resources increase, farmers need sufficient tenure security to encourage production and investment in land. The procedures governing access to and control over land are of vital importance in promoting intensification and commercialisation of agriculture, combating poverty, and reducing risks of conflict. At the same time,…

The goal of development is to permanently improve the welfare of people everywhere. In a world where 1.2 billion people live on less than $1 a day, 10 million children under the age of five die each year, mostly from preventable diseases, and 113 million primary school age children do not attend school, we know we have not succeeded. But have we made progress? The World Bank eAtlas mapping…

This paper discusses the role of FAO support to the Government of Mozambiques Land Commission since 1995, through three consecutive projects. While each has had a relatively short duration, all have been planned and implemented within a single conceptual framework with a much longer time horizon. This has allowed a difficult and complex issue to be progressively developed and nurtured within a…

The leasing of land is a significant element of the environment in which farming operates throughout the world. Agricultural leasing arrangements are a ‘fact of life’. There is a large variety of such arrangements, from the small-scale labour tenancies and sharecropping agreements common in Africa, Asia and Latin America, to the highly mechanized agricultural tenancies of northern Europe and…