In Quest of Legitimacy: Changes in Land Law and Legal Reform in Burundi

Dominik Kohlhagen

Chapter 5 in Natural Resources and Local Livelihoods in the Great Lakes Region of Africa, 2011, pp 83-103 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract Government officials and international donors have been discussing the reform of Burundi’s statutory land law since the 1990s. The current land code, which was promulgated only in 1986, is mainly a compilation of former colonial laws and retained most of the shortcomings of preceding texts. Under the 1986 code, the country saw a significant increase in land conflicts and many illegal land allocations. Other problems, such as growing demographic pressure and new demands for land by returning refugees are adding to tensions produced by the absence of genuinely operational and equitable rules governing land.

Keywords: Land Tenure; Land Reform; Great Lake Region; Local Livelihood; Land Plot (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2011
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DOI: 10.1057/9780230304994_5

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