Land and tree tenure in humid West Africa : a bibliography

Innovations involving tree planting (e.g., for fodder) are thus affected by systems of tree tenure as well as of land tenure. This 510-item bibliography covers land and tree tenure systems in countries all or part of which are in the humid zone of West Africa (Benin, Cameroon, Cape Verde, Ghana, Guinea, Ivory Coast, Liberia, Nigeria - including Northern, Southeastern and Southwestern Nigeria - Senegal, Sierra Leone, and Togo). A national, rather than strictly ecological, approach was chosen to reflect the focus of much of the literature, which frequently deals with countries as a whole. Within the region, diverse customary systems and land use modes have been affected by national policies of different ideologies and degrees of effectiveness. References are listed alphabetically by author. Geographical and subject indexes are provided; the latter covers agroforestry, collateral, communal tenure, customary law, forestry, fragmentation, inheritance, land ownership, land reform, legislation, litigation, nationalization, property transfer, public ownership, right of chiefs, rights of women, security, tenancy, tree crops, and tree tenure. (Author abstract, modified)