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Case Studies of Land Access Practices in Fianarantsoa province, Madagascar
REVUE DE L’INSTITUT DE CIVILISATIONS MUSÉE D’ART ET D’ARCHÉOLOGIEauteur : Daniëlle F. Müller ; Sandra J.T.M. Evers
[ENG] While paying particular attention to the anticipated impact of land registration, thisarticle will present three different local actors’ views on land access, namely those of the LocalGovernment, the NGOs and the local villagers. Research was done in the communes rurales65Alakamisy Ambohimala, Ambila, Ambahatrazo and Mizilo in central and southeast Madagascar.A fieldwork project was set up, aiming to discover whether in practice, the goals and objectivesof recently implemented land registration policy, which were to provide the population with legalproof of their customary land ownership so that they may gain greater legal and social security,have actually produced the desired results for the agrarian population in the research areas. In thisarticle the main focus will be on small subsistence farmers in Fianarantsoa province Supported by the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank, the Malagasy government iscarrying out economic and political reforms throughout the country (Christeansen et al. 2002 : 1).The long term goal of these reforms is not only to stimulate economic development but also totackle poverty in a structural way, in the hope that it will lead to an increase in employment andgreater economic opportunities for the Malagasy population. Kanbur, cited by Christeansen et al.described economic growth as a condition accomplishing a permanent trend in poverty reduction(Christeansen et al. 2002 : 1). The government claims that in order to make Madagascareconomically attractive for foreign and Malagasy investors, it will be necessary to make landownership in Madagascar more transparent by incorporating it in a land registry, which wouldalso facilitate the reintroduction of a land tax (Ministère de L’Amenagement du Territoire et de la Ville2000). As the Ravalomanana government believes that providing villagers and town dwellers withland titles is one way of realizing this, it promoted a system of land registration that is currentlybeing used, called the Individual Land Titling System66.
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