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Land investments, accountability and the law : lessons from West Africa

This report explores how the law shapes opportunities for accountability in relation to land deals for agribusiness investments. The report draws on country studies in Cameroon, Ghana and Senegal. 

Author(s)
Cotula, Lorenzo
Jokubauskaite, Giedre

The re-emergence of customary authority and its relation with local democratic government

The Responsive Forest Governance Initiative (RFGI) is an Africa-wide environmental-governance research and training program focusing on enabling responsive and accountable decentralization to strengthen the representation of forest-based rural people in local-government decision making. This Working Paper series will publish the RFGI case studies as well as other comparative studies of decentralized natural resources governance in Africa and elsewhere that focus on the intersection between local democracy and natural resource management schemes.

Author(s)
Nuesiri, Emmanuel O.

The world environment handbook : a directory of natural resource management agencies and non-gouvernmental environment organizations in 145 countries

Author(s)
Baker, Mark
Bassett, Libby
Ellington, Athleen
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