The practical norms of land governance in Senegalese communes. Institutional incompleteness, politicisation, semi-formality and bricolage

Philippe Lavigne Delville, Momar Diongue and Ibrahima Faye Diouf

Land Use Policy, 2023, vol. 132, issue C

Abstract: The decentralisation of land administration is often presented as a condition for 'good land governance'. In Senegal, the 1964 law on the national domain places rural land within the national domain, under the responsibility of the communes. They can allocate use rights to residents, provided that they personally cultivate the plot. All land transactions are prohibited. These principles, which stem from the 'African socialism' of independence, are in conflict with the political stakes of land tenure, the development of commercial transactions and agribusiness, and intense land speculation, particularly on the fringes of the Dakar metropolis.

Keywords: Local government; Governance; Land market; Housing subdivision; Politicisation (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023
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DOI: 10.1016/j.landusepol.2023.106828

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