Introduction Part I. Property Rights and Land Tenure
1. Property Rights and Land Tenure
2. The State’s System of Statutory Rights
3. Customary Land Tenure
4. Legal and Economic Dualism Part II. Change in Land Use and Land Tenure
5. Farmland
6. Pastures and Rangeland
7. Forests and Trees
8. Other Land and Natural Resources “Beyond the Village”
9. Change, Evolution and Reform Part III. Land Tenure Reform Introduction
10. Indigenous Land Tenure Reform: Mahago-Elibat c. 1898
11. Land Reform in Africa
12. Ownership and Alienability Reforms in Kenya
13. Individualization to a State-Granted Use Right: Senegal and Nigeria
14. More Recent Individualization to Use Rights: Rwanda, Cote d’Ivoire and Ethiopia
15. Confirmation Reforms that Recognize Custom as a Base Tenure: Ghana, Uganda and Liberia
16. Conversion from Customary to Statutory Community-Based Systems: Botswana, Tanzania and Mozambique
17. Reforms to Improve Women’s Land Access and Tenure
18. Assessing Land Tenure Reform Part IV. Land Tenure Futures
19. Conclusions