Patrimony, Property, and Development Territories in Northern Côte d'Ivoire

科特迪瓦北部的遗产、财产和开发领土

• 批准号: 0099252
• 负责人: Thomas Bassett
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2001
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2001-04-15 至 2009-03-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0099252&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Patrimony; Property; Development; Territories; Northern

This project investigates the effects of a new land law requiring the registration and titling of rural land on the productive activities and livelihoods of women, pastoralists, and poor households in northern Ivory Coast. A major debate exists in the African rural development literature on whether indigenous land rights systems should be built upon or supplanted by land titling to promote natural resource conservation and economic growth. The question is what will be the implications of the Ivory Coast land law on the fundamental issues of resource allocation and use. The research seeks to document shifts in resource access and use in the context of the new land law at the local and regional scales. The main hypothesis states that the new land law is creating from scratch new political-administrative entities, rules, and regulations within rural communities which will interact with and augment, not replace, existing institutions and practices of land allocation. These institutional innovations linked to new governance structures at the local, regional and national scales present new opportunities for individuals and groups to gain (and lose) access to and control over productive resources. The general question is how will resource access and use patterns change as a result of these interactions as different actors interpret and modify these new rules and regulations? Do the strategies of different actors to claim land rights under these changing conditions result in greater investments in agricultural and pastoral production and natural resource conservation? A hybrid research strategy and comparative case study will generate both qualitative and quantitative information. The principal methods include survey research techniques (farming systems studies); interviews with members of land registration and land management committees (land registration studies), vegetation transects, key informant interviews, and aerial photo and satellite image interpretation (environmental change study). This project will contribute to land tenure policy debates at a time when many African governments are engaged in land tenure reforms. This study's focus on the actions taken by women, pastoralists, and the poor to maintain or improve their access to resources will illuminate the creative ways in which vulnerable subgroups actively seek to improve their status and livelihoods. Finally, this project will provide original and high quality data on the relationship between land registration and environmental change by examining the effects of the new land law and land user stakes on land cover and land use changes.

本项目调查了要求农村土地登记和所有权的新土地法对科特迪瓦北部妇女、牧民和贫困家庭的生产活动和生计的影响。非洲农村发展文献中存在着一个主要的争论，即土著土地权利制度是否应该建立在土地所有权的基础上，还是应该被土地所有权所取代，以促进自然资源保护和经济增长。问题是，科特迪瓦土地法对资源分配和使用的基本问题将产生什么影响。这项研究力求在地方和区域范围内记录新土地法背景下资源获取和利用的变化。主要假设是，新的土地法正在农村社区中从零开始创建新的政治行政实体、规则和条例，它们将与现有的土地分配制度和实践相互作用，并加以加强，而不是取代。这些与地方、区域和国家规模的新治理结构有关的制度创新为个人和群体获得（或失去）获得和控制生产资源提供了新的机会。一般的问题是，当不同的参与者解释和修改这些新的规则和条例时，这些相互作用将如何改变资源的访问和使用模式？在这些不断变化的条件下，不同行为者主张土地权利的战略是否会导致对农业和畜牧业生产以及自然资源保护的更多投资？混合研究策略和比较案例研究将产生定性和定量信息。主要方法包括调查研究技术（农业系统研究）；与土地注册和土地管理委员会成员的访谈（土地注册研究）、植被样带、主要信息提供者访谈，以及航空照片和卫星图像解译（环境变化研究）。在许多非洲国家政府正在进行土地权属改革之际，该项目将有助于土地权属政策辩论。本研究的重点是妇女、牧民和穷人为维持或改善其获得资源的机会所采取的行动，这将阐明弱势群体积极寻求改善其地位和生计的创造性方式。最后，本项目将通过检查新土地法和土地使用者权益对土地覆盖和土地利用变化的影响，提供有关土地登记与环境变化之间关系的原始和高质量数据。