In contrast to their sedentary image, farmers in Central and South Mali are surprisingly mobile. Many have settled in scattered farming hamlets where they are rapidly expanding the areas under agriculture.

This thesis argues that incorporating pastoral land rights into the formal

system requires identifying and securing pastoralists’ rights on migration

corridors and dry season pastures in a manner that, first, reflects their

The central themes of this book are customary law, traditional leadership and local land management.

Forest resource access is often conceptualized as a `bundle of rights` held by different social groups at different times.