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Land Tenure Security Policy in Côte D'ivoire Sociological and Anthropological Perspectives of Failures and Challenges The International Journal of Social Sciences and Humanities Invention 8(02): 6356-6368, 2020 DOI:10.18535/ijsshi/v8i02.01 ICV 2015: 45.28 ISSN: 2349-2031 © 2020, THEIJSSHI . Research Article Land Tenure Security Policy in Côte d'Ivoire Sociological and Anthropological Perspectives of Failures and Challenges 1Mlan Konan Séverin, University Jean Lorougnonguédé Of Daloa [email protected] 2Amalaman Djedou Martin, University Peleforo Gon Coulibaly Of Korhogo ; [email protected] Introductıon: from Chauveau's position on the However, this Like all sub-Saharan African countries, Côte ontological1 flaw, the drafting of the law based d'Ivoire has adopted a rural land policy that on the model proposed by the French coloniser requires the coexistence of two rural land in sub-Saharan Africa (Comby, 1998), did not management norms: the state legal arsenal and succeed in annihilating customs. In order to the customary norms of various 'indigenous' provide Côte d'Ivoire with a body of law, Law peoples (Mlan, 2013; Lavigne, 1998). From No. 98-750 was promulgated on 23 December colonisation to the post-independence period, 1998. From the middle of the decade 2000 to rural land policy is aligned with land theory 2011, the state plans to test the implementation advocating 'top-down' allocation, i.e. the of this law, known as the 'pilot phase'. What is introduction of legislation instituting the outcome? During this pilot phase, the state administrative procedures with land undertook the generalisation of the policy of registration as the cornerstone, and ignoring formalising customary rights. Noting some local norms (Morsen, 2014; Ouédraogo, 2011; obstacles (we will call them failures), the Muttenzer, 2010; Chauveau, 2010; Bertrand, Ivorian leaders have chosen to review the 1998; Kouassigan, 1978). This approach structural and legal framework in order to provides for the demarcation of village boost the policy of rural land tenure security, territories and the formalisation of customary through the creation of a new decision-making rights into private property rights.From the end body and new legal texts. Does the State's of the 1980s, the generalisation of a policy of provision of land dynamic factors put Côte producing cadastres and titles in West Africa This paper is in some ways at odds with the appeared, with experiments with rural land fashionable international frame of reference, plans (PFR) in Côte d'Ivoire, Benin, Togo, which does not yet foresee that 'tested against Burkina Faso, etc. (Chauveau, 2014; Colin et local issues, rights registration programmes al., 2010; Chauveau et al., 1998).paradigm of are the object of interpretation and the formalisation of customary rights. The author (2014: 49) 'argues for an exploration of those aspects of the international aid system 1According to Comby (1998), there are two sources that that contribute to the perpetuation of the generate modern law on land: on the one hand, the law dogma of formalisation despite its historical modelled on the Torrens model (comby, op cit), written on the basis of a conqueror of a given piece of land who decides to failure in Africa'. d'Ivoire out of land whom the titles of ownership should be granted (Mlan, 2013). blockages? The study, which questions, from a On the other hand, the law from the 'bottom up', a recognition socio-anthropological perspective, the and transcription of practices of access to land, generation efficiency of the policy of registering after generation (Comby, op cit), as is the case in France, with customary rights in Côte d'Ivoire, borrows the law through the thirty-year prescription. 6356 International Journal of Social Sciences and Humanities Invention, vol. 8, Issue 02, February 2021 Amalaman Djedou Martin1, / Mlan Konan Séverin2/Land Tenure Security Policy in Ivory Coast Sociological and Anthropological Perspectives of Failures and Challenges appropriation whose scope goes far beyond the - The site in the East, including the strictly agrarian functions that land policies department of Abengourou, the first pioneer generally attribute to land resources. These zone of the coffee-cocoa binomial marked policies are in fact at the heart of the processes by massive Burkinabè immigration and of negotiation and redefinition of the Baoulé allochthones, all seeking legitimacy categories of local citizenship and constitute through the acquisition of property titles. major issues in the modes of regulation of - Béoumi, in the centre of Côte d'Ivoire, in access to 'land and other material, political and Baoulé country, is also home to a large symbolic resources' (Colin et al., 2010: 5). In Malinké population (Ivorians and Malians) other words, the study revisits the land policy as well as Burkinabés, attracted by cocoa of the state of Côte d'Ivoire, which clearly farming. reveals that, despite the failures during the - Korhogo, in the North, is under human pilot and generalisation phases of pressure, due to agricultural activities (yam, formalisation, this policy is still undergoing cotton, mango, cashew nut, etc) and cattle legal tidying up, due to the perpetuation of breeding by Peuhl pastoralists (from debt aid from its development partners. This Burkina, Mali, Niger). studysuccessively analyses (i) the rural land These sites have in common that they have policy, (ii) the pilot and generalisation phases been chosen for the Rural Land Plans project2. of the implementation of the 1998 law, (iii) the In addition, 3 sites outside the pilot areas have determinants of the failures, and (iv) the been selected: Aboisso with Ningué3 as a asymmetrical perspectives. village in the South-East, the sub-prefecture of Afféry (Akoupé department) also in the South- Methodology: East, and Mankono (with the village of The study covered 8 sites. On the one hand, Marrandallah) in the Centre-North. This the 5 zones of the pilot phase of enabled 150 interviews with land certificate implementation of the 1998 law were selected applicants, on-applicants, civil administrators, on the national territory, considering some administrative officers, village notabilities and specificities: The south-western zone, members of rural land management including the departments of Soubré and committees. Méagui, with the territories of villages in the sub-prefecture of Oupoyo (Méagui) as pilot Results the 1198 Law and Its Spirit: sites, and the territories of the sub-prefectures of Okrouyo, Grand Zatry, Yabayo and Gueyo Law No. 98-750 of 23 December 1198, on (Soubré) as non-pilot sites. This is an area of rural land tenure, is the law that constitutes the colonisation of the coffee-cocoa binomial with basic text for rural land policy in Côte d'Ivoire. strong antagonisms between the indigenous Bakwé (Méagui) and Bété (Soubré) and the 2Chauveau et al (1998: 1) report that 'rural land plan type' non-Baoulé and non-Burkinabè and Malian (RLP) projects were in operation in Côte d'Ivoire from 1989- allophones (Ibo, 2006). The centre-western 90 to 1995, and continued in Guinea and Benin. The aim of zone, including the department of Daloa (with the rural land tenure plan was to "secure the land rights of the territory of the village of Doboua being grassroots actors [...] and to develop a tool or "land tested), also experiences a high level of documentation" for multiple uses". allochthonous (Baoulé) and foreign 3Aboisso, which includes the present-day village of Ningué, is (Burkinabé) immigration among the Bété- characterised by a long history of immigration, which is Gnamboua peoples. This area is very marked reflected locally by the access of "foreigners" to the land from by the effect of the exacerbation of political the early 1920s (Rougerie, 1957). competition between the Baoulé and Bété- Gnamboua peoples and the leaders Houphouët and Gbagbo. 6357 International Journal of Social Sciences and Humanities Invention, vol. 8, Issue 02, February 2021 Amalaman Djedou Martin1, / Mlan Konan Séverin2/Land Tenure Security Policy in Ivory Coast Sociological and Anthropological Perspectives of Failures and Challenges What is the spirit of this law? The main Rural is established from the moment the land objective of this law is to transform customary is registered in the land register opened for rights into modern, individual and this purpose by the Administration”. Then, to transmissible property rights. It aims to implement this 1998 law, three decrees were organise the transition from customary rights issued in 1999. The first, Decree n°99- 593 of to private property rights. The law initially 13 October 1999, sets the framework for the prescribes the complete registration of all organisation and powers of the Rural Land village territories and the issuing of land Management Committees (C.G.F.R.). The certificates (CF) (individual or collective). At second, Decree No. 99-594 of 13 October this stage, no condition of ethnic origin or 1999, determines the modalities or procedures nationality is specified: "the aim is to establish of application to customary rural land tenure. recognition of customary rights exercised in a And the third, n°99-595 of 13 October 1999, peaceful and continuous manner" (Prefect of determines the procedure for consolidating the Méagui). To this end, farmers who are not rights of provisional land concessionaires in entitled to a land certificate will be included in the rural land sector. With a view to better the specifications of the said document. At a application of the legislative text (law n°98- second stage, the law provides that holders of 750 of 23 December 1998) and regulations CFs, of Ivorian nationality, must make another (decrees and orders), fifteen orders have been application (within three years) to obtain land issued by ministers (Agriculture, Economy, titles (art. 1 of the 1998 law). In the forcep, Interior, etc.), either individually or jointly. holders of land certificates who are not entitled Following the 2002 crisis, this legislative text to land title (because they are not Ivorians) are was amended by Law No.
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