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Title:Land tenure, land holding and agricultural development in the central Sokoto close-settled zone, Nigeria
Author:Goddard, A.D.
Year:1972
Periodical:Savanna: A Journal of the Environmental and Social Sciences
Volume:1
Issue:1
Pages:29-41
Language:English
Geographic term:Northern Nigeria
Subjects:land tenure
agricultural development
Abstract:A survey of land tenure in three villages in the central Sokoto close settled zone shows that communal land tenure has given way under population pressure and the influence of Muslim land law to individual landholding. Land has become a transferable economic commodity and this allows the farmers a large degree of security. However the system appears to restrict the prospect of agricultural development in two ways: land can not be used as collateral for a loan and the inheritance laws encourage the subdivision of holdings and the average size of holding decreases as population densities increase. Notes, maps, tables.
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