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

该项目调查一项新土地法对象牙海岸北部妇女、牧民和贫困家庭的生产活动和生计的影响。在非洲农村发展文献中，关于土著土地权制度是否应该建立在土地所有权制度的基础上或由土地所有权制度取代，以促进自然资源保护和经济增长，存在着重大的争论。问题是，象牙海岸土地法将对资源分配和使用的基本问题产生什么影响。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使用方面的变化。主要假设是，新土地法正在从无到有地在农村社区内创建新的政治-行政实体、规则和条例，这些实体、规则和条例将与现有的土地分配制度和做法相互作用，并加以加强，而不是取代。这些体制创新与地方、区域和国家各级的新治理结构相联系，为个人和群体获得(和失去)获得和控制生产性资源提供了新的机会。一般的问题是，随着不同的参与者解释和修改这些新的规则和法规，资源访问和使用模式将如何因这些交互而改变？不同行为者在这些不断变化的条件下要求土地权的战略是否会导致对农业和畜牧业生产和自然资源保护的更多投资？混合研究战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(耕作系统研究)、对土地登记和土地管理委员会成员的访谈(土地登记研究)、植被样带、主要线人访谈以及航空照片和卫星图像解译(环境变化研究)。在许多非洲政府正在进行土地保有权改革之际，该项目将有助于土地保有权政策的辩论。这项研究的重点是妇女、牧民和穷人为保持或改善他们获得资源的机会而采取的行动，这将揭示弱势群体积极寻求改善其地位和生计的创造性方式。最后，该项目将通过审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，提供关于土地登记和环境变化之间关系的原始和高质量的数据。

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.