Land reform and certification in Madagascar: does perception of tenure security matter and change? : [Draft]

Burnod Perrine, Andrianirina Nicole, Boue Céline, Gubert Flore, Rakoto-Tiana Nelly, Vaillant Julia, Rabeantoandro Rado, Ratovoarinony Raphael. 2012. Land reform and certification in Madagascar: does perception of tenure security matter and change? : [Draft]. In : Annual World Bank Conference on Land and Poverty, Washington, USA, 23-26 April, 2012. s.l. : s.n., 35 p. Annual World Bank Conference on Land and Poverty, Washington, États-Unis, 23 Avril 2012/26 Avril 2012.

Résumé : The Malagasy land reform, ongoing since 2005, belongs to the new generation of land reforms. It promotes the legal recognition of existing landholders' rights (through certification) and the decentralization of land management. Despite the change of paradigm underlying this new wave of reforms, premises and expectations remain unchanged: a) rights legalization is justified by large tenure insecurity and b) rights formalization is a prerequisite to reduce conflicts over land rights, improve access to credit, boost productive investments and stimulate land markets. But before analyzing economic impacts, the relations between land reform and tenure security need to be explored. In this line, the paper first explores the determinant of the sense of tenure insecurity and underlines the complementary role of certification to informal and existing modes of rights validation (petits papiers). It shows then that decentralization of land management (through the creation of local land offices) offers a better and a more equitable access to legal information, land administration institutions, legalization of rights and devices of conflict resolution. But it also underlines that this ongoing process of legal empowerment still need to be more inclusive for the poor and discusses the ways to reinforce this process without denying the reality of local/customary land practices.

Classification Agris : E11 - Économie et politique foncières
D50 - Législation
E50 - Sociologie rurale

Auteurs et affiliations

• Burnod Perrine, CIRAD-ES-UMR TETIS (MDG)
• Andrianirina Nicole, Observatoire du foncier (MDG)
• Boue Céline, Montpellier SupAgro (FRA)
• Gubert Flore, IRD (FRA)
• Rakoto-Tiana Nelly, IRD (FRA)
• Vaillant Julia, IRD (FRA)
• Rabeantoandro Rado, Observatoire du foncier (MDG)
• Ratovoarinony Raphael, Observatoire du foncier (MDG)

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