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Fundamental Security Relative in the context of land reform in Madagascar: the case of the kijana de Berinrinina

Abstract

The “pilot project for the protection and conservation of biodiversity” of the French Global Environment Fund, in application of environmental legislation, whose Law 96-025, known as the law on secure local management (gelose), has supported the Malagasy State since 2 002 to ensure the transfer of the management of renewable natural resources from the Ambohilero forest (rural municipality of DIdy and the Alaotra-Mangoro region). The application of these environmental legislation implies the concomitant introduction of securing the land use of the forest areas transferred, in particular pursuant to Decree 98-610 on Fundamental Securing Relative. Since the enactment of these texts a decade ago, it has become apparent that little effort has been made by development operators to achieve this dual objective of transferring natural resources and securing land. It is therefore difficult to understand its importance, necessity and interest. The pilot project for the protection and enhancement of biodiversity, through measures developed in the rural municipality of DIdy and, in particular, in the kijana de Beririnina, undertook in 2005 an action to secure land tenure under Decree 98-610 strictly in order to assess the real possibility of its application. The article will set out the constraints encountered in implementing the transfer of management of renewable natural resources (timber, fishery products, in particular eels and non-wood forest products — honey or Ravensara aromatica leaves, etc. —) And the arrangements for setting up the SFR, taking into account both institutional requirements (official and customary status of kijana, capacities of state services — domains, topography and forestry) and social requirements (conflicting interests of the members of the kijana owner line). By the same token, it will be demonstrated that the restoration of a forest area can be achieved through the application of existing legislation and that it responds to real demand from the populations benefiting from transfers of management of forest resources. In this sense, it is a topical issue in the context of land reform in Madagascar.

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