The political ecology of land management in the oil palm based cropping system on the Adja plateau in Benin

Yemadje, Rolland H.; Crane, Todd A.; Vissoh, P.V.; Mongbo, Roch; Richards, Paul; Kossou, D.K.; Kuyper, Thom W.

doi:10.1016/j.njas.2012.06.007

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“…The significance of witnesses in customary or non-governmental land transactions has been well-documented in many African and Asian countries such as Nigeria (Nwogugu 1964;Chianu 1992); Kenya (Mackenzie 1996;Musembi 2007); Rwanda (André and Platteau 1998); Ghana (Gough and Yankson 2000;Blocher 2006;Abdulai and Hammond 2010;Abdulai and Owusu-Ansah 2014); Francophone Rural Africa (Delville 2002); Uganda (Nkurunziza 2007); Sub-Sahara Africa (Toulmin, 2009); Tanzania (Parsa et al 2011); Ethiopia (Bezu and Holden 2014); South East Asia (Fandl 2005); the Philippines (Innes 1918); Imperial China (Rawski 1972;Hase 2013;Fung 2014;Lai et al 2015); Indonesia (Brown 2003); Papua New Guinea (Strathern, and Stewart 1998;Koczberski, Curry, and Anjen 2012); Sri Lanka (Perera 2011); Benin (Yemadje et al 2012); Nepal (Chhetri 2014).…”

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Informal land registration under unclear property rights: witnessing contracts, redevelopment, and conferring property rights

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The significance of informal land registration in property transactions and development has been discussed at length, but there are few examples of in-depth case studies of how this information accessing and collection institution relates to them and how it may create property rights. This paper examines the nature and operation of non-governmental and voluntary land transaction registration practices in Kowloon Walled City, an ideal example of a privately-planned and developed habitat under unclear property rights due to jurisdictional disputes between China and Britain and no state protection of property rights or intervention in building control existed. Based on documentary evidence interpreted from a Coasian and Hayekian stance, it advances the proposition that the contracts the Kowloon Walled City Kaifong Welfare Promotion Association (hereafter the Kaifong Association) sought to represent as a witness built up its political credibility as a representative body. Such a role not only reduced transaction costs of contract enforcement and, hence, facilitated redevelopment, but also became that of a quasi-government land registrar due to the popularity of its witnessing service, which, under specific circumstances, served as the basis for the assignment of de jure private property rights by the state. It was a good example of Hong Kong people ruling Hong Kong (Jones 2011: p.270, quoting Xu Jiatun, Head of the Xinhua News Agency) Keywords Witness, land contract, informal land registration, unclear property rights, transaction cost 1 Jones (2011), for instance, did not disclose what confidential materials he got in Touch as a District Officer due to conflict of interest. Bristow's (1984) classic work on local land-use planning covered prewar planning for the KWC, but was constrained by data access to postwar confidential files. When Wesley-Smith researched for his 1973 paper and approached government, he was not given confidential or secret information.

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Informal land registration under unclear property rights: witnessing contracts, redevelopment, and conferring property rights

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“…Thus, we should not continue the so-often-used terminology of "risk management" by African farmers, but we should say that, in their vulnerability, they are "coping with risks" [13]. The challenge is not only to design new coping strategies, but also to bring about institutional transformations within which such strategies would become rational for farmers [38]. Vulnerability has emerged as a cross-cutting theme in research on the human dimensions of global environmental change.…”

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Use of Traditional Weather/Climate Knowledge by Farmers in the South-Western Free State of South Africa: Agrometeorological Learning by Scientists

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Abstract:The variety of natural indicators, associated with weather forecasting and climate prediction, as used by farmers in the South-Western Free State province of South Africa, is described. Most farmers in this area were not familiar with the application of weather forecasts/climate predictions for agricultural production, or with other science-based agrometeorological products. They relied almost fully on their experience and traditional knowledge for farming decision making. The indicators for traditional knowledge are demonstrated here in broad terms, relying on the stories and indications from observations and years of experience of their use by the farmers. These means of engagement with the natural environment, are skills not well understood by most scientists, but useful to the farmers. They range from the constellation of stars, animal behavior, cloud cover and type, blossoming of certain indigenous trees, appearance and disappearance of reptiles, to migration of bird species and many others. It is suggested that some short-term traditional forecasts/predictions may be successfully merged with science-based climate predictions. The traditional knowledge and its use, reported on in this paper, is what scientists learned from farmers. Berkes was right that scholars have wasted too much time and effort on a OPEN ACCESSAtmosphere 2013, 4 384 science versus traditional knowledge debate; we should reframe it instead as a science and traditional knowledge dialogue and partnership. The complications of a changing climate make this even more necessary.

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“…Fallowing facilitates easier agricultural operations in the cultivated land besides influencing soil properties and restoring soil fertility (Aguilera, Motavalli, Valdivia, & Gonzales, 2013; Doran, Elliott, & Paustian, 1998). The OPP and FL receive different management practices, which influence soil properties (Salmiyati, Idayu, & Supriyanto, 2014; Yemadje et al, 2012). The management practices like addition of recommended doses of nutrients, irrigation, crop residue addition, and weeding are carried out in OPP for improved FFB production.…”

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Oil palm cultivation enhances soil pH, electrical conductivity, concentrations of exchangeable calcium, magnesium, and available sulfur and soil organic carbon content

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The land area under oil palm (Elaeis guineensis Jacq.) cultivation (OPC) is increasing in different parts of world. Assessment of the soil parameters of oil palm plantations (OPP) is essential to judge the sustainability of land use for maintaining soil fertility and avoiding land degradation. The effects of OPC in India on soil parameters are poorly understood. Therefore, we evaluated the impact of OPC over the years (by considering oil palm plantations of 6, 12, and 18 years age) on soil properties, nutrient availability, soil organic carbon (SOC) pools, and SOC stock in comparison with those parameters in adjacent fallow land (FL) of southern India. Soils of OPP showed enhanced soil pH value, electrical conductivity, the concentrations of exchangeable calcium and magnesium and available sulfur, and SOC content in 0-20, 20-40, and 40-60 cm depths of soil compared with those parameters in FL. Available phosphorus concentration in soil increased with plantation age revealing the need for rational phosphorus management. However, the concentration of available nitrogen, potassium, exchangeable calcium and magnesium, and available sulfur and boron did not change with plantation age. The contents of SOC and very labile carbon were higher in surface soil layers of OPP than that in FL. Oil palm cultivation led to 20, 18, and 45% enhancement in SOC stock in 6, 12, and 18 years-old OPP, respectively, compared with SOC stock in FL indicating C sequestration due to OPC. The very labile and less labile C stock in FL, 6 and 12 years-old OPP were similar, whereas the values of these parameters were higher in 18 years-old OPP. Positive correlation (p < .01) of SOC with very labile, labile, and less labile carbon pools indicated their inter-relatedness. This information will be utilized in devising rational nutrient management options for the existing as well as ensuing OPP due to variations in soil properties and available nutrients.

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The political ecology of land management in the oil palm based cropping system on the Adja plateau in Benin

Cited by 11 publications

References 20 publications

Informal land registration under unclear property rights: witnessing contracts, redevelopment, and conferring property rights

Informal land registration under unclear property rights: witnessing contracts, redevelopment, and conferring property rights

Use of Traditional Weather/Climate Knowledge by Farmers in the South-Western Free State of South Africa: Agrometeorological Learning by Scientists

Oil palm cultivation enhances soil pH, electrical conductivity, concentrations of exchangeable calcium, magnesium, and available sulfur and soil organic carbon content

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