Formalisation of property rights has recently been proposed as a way of reducing poverty.
The poor, it is said, do not lack assets, they lack only the formal, protected rights necessary …

Why, despite an emphasis on'getting institutions right', do development initiatives so
infrequently deliver as planned? Why do many institutions designed for natural resource …

Public authority does not always fall within the exclusive realm of government institutions; in
some contexts, institutional competition is intense and a range of ostensibly a‐political …

The relationship between private property and common property has engaged both legal
and economic scholars in a long series of controversies over the meaning, the sequence of …

The growing demand for food, water, and shelter change the way people use land. These
changes have affected or even caused conflict in several locations. However, conflicts do …

Contemporary discourse on land in Africa is polarized between advocates of tenure reform
through state registration of individual titles to land and others who claim that customary or …

Commons projects, such as community-based natural resource management, have
widespread appeal, which has enabled them to shrug off a mixed performance in practice …

This article examines the marginal position of artisanal miners in sub‐Saharan Africa, and
considers how they are incorporated into mineral sector change in the context of institutional …

This report investigates the dynamics of one of the most common agricultural water
management practices of sub-Saharan Africa, ie, small reservoirs. Small reservoirs dam …

Much of the current literature on state failure and collapse suffers from serious conceptual
flaws. It ignores the variegated types of empirical statehood that exist on the ground, it …