Trees, tenure and conflict: Rubber in colonial Benin

Arbeitspapier

Tree crops have changed land tenure in Africa. Farmers have acquired more permanent, alienable rights, but have also faced disputes with competing claimants and the state. I show that the introduction of Para rubber had similar effects in the Benin region of colonial Nigeria. Farmers initially obtained land by traditional methods. Mature farmswere assets that could be sold, let out, and used to raise credit. Disputes over rubber involved smallholders, communities of rival users, would-be migrant farmers, commercial plantations, and the colonial state, which feared rubber would make land unavailable for food crops.

Angaben zum Objekt

• ISBN: 978-92-9230-392-1
• Sprache: Englisch

Verweise und Beziehungen

• Erschienen in: Series: WIDER Working Paper ; No. 2011/29

Klassifikation und Themen

• Klassifikation: Wirtschaft ; Economic History: Agriculture, Natural Resources, Environment, and Extractive Industries: Africa; Oceania ; Economic Development: Agriculture; Natural Resources; Energy; Environment; Other Primary Products
• Thema: Africa ; Nigeria ; tree crops ; rubber ; land tenure ; land conflict

Beteiligte, Orts- und Zeitangaben

• Ereignis: Geistige Schöpfung
• (wer): Fenske, James
• Ereignis: Veröffentlichung
• (wer): The United Nations University World Institute for Development Economics Research (UNU-WIDER)
• (wo): Helsinki
• (wann): 2011

Weitere Informationen

• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/53998
• Letzte Aktualisierung: 10.03.2025, 11:43 MEZ