Land Tenure Lexicon: A Glossary of Terms from English and French Speaking West Africa

according Afrique noire agricultural Alienation Allodial Allodial title appropriation area of land Barrière bien Bris Burkina Faso cadastral Campbell Black Colonial land tenure common heritage Common property resources Compulsory acquisition concept crops customary decentralisation defined Derived rights DFID Domaine/Domanialité Droit Eminent domain Espace Expropriation fallow farmers Finage foncier foncière en Afrique forest francophone French Gestion des terroirs Ghana Global Positioning System Good/thing grazing herders Immovable property Indigenous tenure systems institutions Karsenty Karthala Land chief Land markets land ownership Land registration land rights land tenure system landholders Lavigne Delville lease lineage maître Matrilocal residence mise en valeur natural resources Open access resources organisation owner Pastoral resources Permit Plan Foncier Rural production programmes property rights Propriété Real rights recognised refers sécurisation foncière Sharecropping Sharia Shifting cultivation Slash and burn social tenure rights tenure security term Terres vacantes territory Terroir traditional transfer Transhumance West Africa