{UAH} Burkina Faso's Ambitious Experiment in Participatory Land Tenure Reform

On June 16, 2009, Burkina Faso adopted one of the most innovative   pieces of rural land tenure legislation yet seen in West Africa.   Understanding the lead-up, development, execution-and ultimately the   results of this sweeping experiment-offers valuable insights for other   African countries in the throes of legislative reform. By the beginning of the 2000s, the need for an overhaul of rural   land tenure legislation in Burkina Faso had become glaringly evident.   Demographic, climatic and social factors all contributed to intensifying   competition for land and natural resources. Conflicts over land and   natural resources were pervasive and increasingly violent. Each of the   two land tenure systems in Burkina Faso-the statutory regime of the   central government and local customary land tenure managers-seemed   powerless to prevent the slide into insecure landholdings and constrained   access to land.

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