This paper is concerned with equity issues arising in the process of evolution of land tenure systems towards increasing individualisation. The focus is put on the transformation of non-market modes of land allocation, including inheritance rules and practices.

This first objective of the paper is to achieve a better understanding of the values and the worldview that lead traditional tribal societies to distribute wealth and incomes in manners that are hostile to economic change. The second objective can be persued namely that of identifying ways of...

This paper presents first-hand evidence about land distribution and the impact of land markets in East and Central Uganda.

The purpose of this paper is to understand the rationale and to assess the viability of pooling mechanisms in the specific context of a common property resource, a coastal fishery in Japan. The authors also want to probe into the reasons why some groups (in fact, a minority) opt for pooling...

The 1990s several important fishing communities along teh Senegalese coastline have adopted effort-restraining schemes on their own initiative ought retain attention. In particular, four central questions deserve to be investigated: (1) Have these schemes been motivated by market power or by...