Public Lecture: Land Governance in West Africa – preliminary empirical insights; Speakers: Fellows of the Interdisciplinary Fellow Group 6

via Zoom

Abstract:

Drawing from interdisciplinary research on land governance in West Africa, with field sites in rural and urban areas of Burkina Faso, Mali, Ghana, and Senegal, members of the Sixth Cohort of the MIASA Interdisciplinary Fellow Group (IFG6) of MIASA share some preliminary insights from their works in this Public Lecture.  With fellowship support from MIASA at the University of Ghana, the IFG6 research project, spanning May to August 2022, engages with the dynamics of social practices that result in tensions, transformations, reconfigurations, and hybridizations of access to, use of, and securing land, and attempts to understand their implications for equity, sustainability, and efficiency in land governance. Access to, use of, and securing land is a multidimensional source of social, political, juridical, and economic strategies as several actors pursue their interests in land. Beside the plurality of actors and mechanisms, gender, youth, and migration also remain important elements of analysis. The objective of the IFG6 research project is to describe and analyze how and to what extent different actors pursue their interests and interact to shape land governance in rural and urban West Africa. 

Speakers:

Dr. Lamine Doumbia (MIASA IFG 6)

Dr. Aly Tounkara (MIASA IFG 6/ Director Centre des Études Sécuritaires et Stratégiques au Sahel (CE3S))

Dr. Austin Ablo (MIASA IFG 6/ University of Ghana)

Dr. Peter Narh (MIASA IFG/ University of Ghana)

Discussant:

Dr. Dzifa Tovikey, Research Fellow, Institute for Statistical, Social and Economic Research (ISSER), University of Ghana