From non-rights of heritage to land donation in Dassa and Niaogho in Burkina Faso
Main Article Content
Abstract
Women are portrayed as marginalized in regard to their access to land. NGOs and many authors present this situation irrespective of its relativistic nature. Through the example of the localities of Niaogho and Dassa in Burkina Faso, this article presents peculiarities that question the general understanding that women do not have access to land. Our research question is: How do the women of Niaogho and Dassa do/manage to get farmland? The aim is to show that although women do not have inheritance rights, they have arable land for their agricultural needs. From the qualitative method and through individual interviews with women in both localities, the results show that access to land is made by donation. Every woman is capable of having her own land if she expresses the need to a landowner. The acquisition of a plot of land can also be done by settling near a field left fallow by her husband. Thus, unlike girls, women have access to land and appear as permanent owners of their fields.
Downloads
Article Details
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.
Copyright Notice
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.
Authors who publish with this journal agree to the following terms:
- Authors retain copyright and grant the journal right of first publication with the work simultaneously licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License that allows others to share the work with an acknowledgement of the work's authorship and initial publication in this journal.
- Authors are able to enter into separate, additional contractual arrangements for the non-exclusive distribution of the journal's published version of the work (e.g., post it to an institutional repository or publish it in a book), with an acknowledgement of its initial publication in this journal.Penulis.
- Authors are permitted and encouraged to post their work online (e.g., in institutional repositories or on their website) prior to and during the submission process, as it can lead to productive exchanges, as well as earlier and greater citation of published work (Refer to The Effect of Open Access).
References
BASSETT, T. THOMAS, J. 1995. L’introduction de la propriété de la terre. Terre, terroir, territoire, les tensions foncières,. coll.“Dynamique des systèmes agraires”,. pp. Paris, ORSTOM, 395-420.
BAYILI, B. 1998. Religion, droit et pouvoir au Burkina Faso, Paris, L’Harmattan, « études.
BROMLEY, D., (ed), 1992. Making the commons work: Theory, practice and policy, San Francisco, ICS
COQUERY-VIDROVITCH, C. 1982. Le régime foncier rural en Afrique Noire. Le Bris, E., Le Roy, E., Leimdorfer, F., Grégoire, E.(1982,Enjeux fonciers en Afrique noire. pp. 65-84.
DOKA, M. MONIMART, M. 2004. Pression foncière et nouvelles normes d’accès à la terre: vers une déféminisation de l’agriculture au sud Niger. s.l. : IIDE (international institut for environnement and développement) Programme zone aride, dossier N°128 p,22. p. 22.
FAURE, A. 1990. L’appropriation de l’espace foncier. Une étude d’anthropologie sociale en région bissa (Burkina Faso), Thèse de 3é cycle en Sciences Sociales, Paris, E.H.E.S.S, 450p.
FAURE, A. 1993. Niagho versus Beghedo, un conflit foncier à la veille de la révolution burkinabé, Cahiers des Sciences Humaines, p.105-119.
FAURE, A. 1996. Le Pays bissa avant le barrage de Bagré, Paris, SEPIA-A.D.D. B, 311p.
HESSELING, G. 1994. La terre à qui est-elle ? Les pratiques foncières en Basse-Casamance. Comprendre la Casamance, ed. FG Barbier-Wiesser. pp. 243-266.
IZARD, M. 1985a. Le Yatenga précolonial : un ancien royaume du Burkina, Paris, Karthala, 164p.
IZARD, M. 1985b. Gens du pouvoir, Gens de la terre, Les institutions politiques de l’ancien royaume du Yatenga (Bassin de la Volta Blanche), Cambridge University Press, 593p.
KERGOAT, D. 1982. les ouvrières. paris : le sycomore. p. 142.
KI ZERBO, F. KONATE, G. et OUATTARA, S. 2006. Sécurisation des droits fonciers des femmes rurales au Burkina Faso: à l’écoute de la Loi et des coutumes. Burkina Faso : Graf - OXFAM-Solidarité.
KONE, M. 2006. Foncier rural, citoyenneté et cohésion sociale en Côte d’Ivoire : la pratique du tutorat dans la sous-préfecture de Gboguhé. In Colloque international “Les frontières de la question foncière”, Montpellier. pp. 1-27.
KONE, M. 2011. Femmes et foncier. Comité technique « Foncier & développement ». pp. 1-4.
LAHUEC, J. P. 1979. Mobilité du peuplement bissa et mossi, Paris, Jouve, 149p.
LES ACTIONS, D. L. D., & DE ACTIVITEITEN, V. D. D. 2009. Femme-agronomie-développement: le cas du Burundi. Technology Adoption and Productivity Difference among Growers of New Rice for Africa in Savanna Zone of Nigeria, . Tropicultura, 27(4). 2009, pp. 253-256 consulté sur tropicultura. org le 30/01/2019.
OSTROM E., 1990.Governing the commons. The evolution of institution for collective action. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press
ORDIONI, N. 2005. pauvretés et inégalités de droits en Afrique: une perspective "genrée". De Boeck Supérieur « Mondes en développement » n°129. p. 93 à 106.