Pastoral land rent

Land tenure has been the subject of considerable scientific production. In Africa the land question has always been at the heart of major development issues in both rural and urban areas. In the discipline of geography numerous studies have been carried out on rural land tenure particularly agricultural and pastoral and urban land tenure. However few geographers have taken an interest in the study of land rents. Most of the related studies have come from economists and lawyers who focus on agricultural and urban land tenure. The latter seem to ignore pastoral land rents which are nevertheless of undeniable interest particularly in ecologically fragile areas of Africa where livestock production depends on natural resources that are subject to great spatio-temporal variability available on fragmented land that is dwindling under the combined effect of several natural and anthropogenic factors. This book aims to initiate debate on the concept (pastoral land rent) its theoretical foundations and its multiple implications (social economic environmental).