Analyzing the Benin Land Law: An alternative viewpoint of progress |
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| Institution: | 1. Inserm U1153, université de Paris, 12, rue de l’École de Médecine, 75006 Paris, France;2. Hôpital St Louis, 1, avenue Claude-Vellefaux, 75010 Paris, France;3. Société française et francophone d’éthique médicale, 45, rue des Saints-Pères, 75006 Paris, France;4. CNRS UMR7242 BSC, ESBS et université de Strasbourg, 300, boulevard Sébastien-Brant, CS 1041367412, Illkirch cedex, France;5. Académie internationale éthique, médecine et politiques publiques (IAMEPH), université de Paris, 45, rue des Saints-Pères, 75006 Paris, France;6. Inserm UMR-S1124, toxicologie pharmacologie et signalisation cellulaire, université de Paris, 45, rue des Saints-Pères, 75006 Paris, France;7. Inserm, 101, rue de Tolbiac, 75013 Paris, France;8. Hôpital Foch, 40, rue Worth, 92150 Suresnes, France;1. Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Nigeria, Nsukka, Enugu State, Nigeria;2. Department of Physics, Federal University Lokoja, Lokoja, Kogi State, Nigeria;3. Washera Geospace and Radar Science Laboratory, Bahir Dar University, Bahir Dar, Ethiopia;4. Department of Arctic Geophysics, University Centre in Svalbard, Longyearbyen, Norway;1. Montanuniversität Leoben, Department of Mining Engineering and Mineral Economics, Leoben, Austria;2. University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences Vienna, Institute for Sustainable Economic Development, Vienna, Austria;3. ōyamasenmaida Preservation Association, Kamogawa, Japan |
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| Abstract: | Ekpodessi and Nakamura recently published in Land Use Policy a paper on the 2013 Benin Land Law, the stated objective of which was to evaluate its effectiveness. The 2013 Land Law is mainly limited to reforming land administration bodies and does not alter the underpinnings of existing land law. On the contrary, it reaffirms the focus on private ownership and aims at simplifying and reducing the costs for accessing a land title. A new agency responsible for land administration has been created and just began to deliver titles, but needed policy tools were not yet in place at time of writing. It is thus too early to evaluate the new law’s effectiveness. In any event, this paper questions the assumptions and the content of the Benin Land Law and its ability to positively address land issues. The paper argues that effectiveness cannot be assessed without a conceptual frame of reference and associated methodology for critique. On the basis on the author’s in depth field research on land policy processes in Benin over many years, another viewpoint is offered on key findings in Ekpodessi and Nakamura’s paper. |
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| Keywords: | Land law Policy analysis Implementation Evaluation Legal pluralism Research methodology |
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