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International audience ; The revival of public policy reforms in Africa has led to a proliferation of workshops, seminars, and other multi-stakeholder forums, which are largely overlooked in research.Five years after the new Land Code, the 2018 National Forum on Land Tenure in Benin provided an opportunity to socialize information on the Code's implementation progress,and to engage in a critical dialogue on the relationship between local elected officials and land administration. The Forum thus marked a step in an ongoing process of landpolicy negotiation by updating the power relations between actors. By funding such workshops, donors provide both spaces for confrontation with other stakeholders andresources to influence the trajectory of policies for the national networks of policy entrepreneurs they support. ; Le renouveau des politiques publiques en Afrique suscite une multiplication d'ateliers, séminaires et autres forums pluri-acteurs, que la recherche néglige largement. Cinq ans après le vote d'un nouveau Code domanial et foncier, le Forum national sur le foncier au Bénin de 2018 a permis de socialiser l'information sur les avancées dans sa mise en oeuvre et d'engager un dialogue critique sur les rapports entre élus locaux et administration foncière. Il a ainsi marqué une étape dans un processus continu de négociation de la politique foncière, en actualisant des rapports de force entre acteurs. En finançant ces ateliers, les bailleurs de fonds offrent aux réseaux nationaux d'entrepreneurs de politiques qu'ils soutiennent des espaces de confrontation avec les autres parties prenantes et des ressources pour influer sur la trajectoire des politiques.

International audience ; The revival of public policy reforms in Africa has led to a proliferation of workshops, seminars, and other multi-stakeholder forums, which are largely overlooked in research.Five years after the new Land Code, the 2018 National Forum on Land Tenure in Benin provided an opportunity to socialize information on the Code's implementation progress,and to engage in a critical dialogue on the relationship between local elected officials and land administration. The Forum thus marked a step in an ongoing process of landpolicy negotiation by updating the power relations between actors. By funding such workshops, donors provide both spaces for confrontation with other stakeholders andresources to influence the trajectory of policies for the national networks of policy entrepreneurs they support. ; Le renouveau des politiques publiques en Afrique suscite une multiplication d'ateliers, séminaires et autres forums pluri-acteurs, que la recherche néglige largement. Cinq ans après le vote d'un nouveau Code domanial et foncier, le Forum national sur le foncier au Bénin de 2018 a permis de socialiser l'information sur les avancées dans sa mise en oeuvre et d'engager un dialogue critique sur les rapports entre élus locaux et administration foncière. Il a ainsi marqué une étape dans un processus continu de négociation de la politique foncière, en actualisant des rapports de force entre acteurs. En finançant ces ateliers, les bailleurs de fonds offrent aux réseaux nationaux d'entrepreneurs de politiques qu'ils soutiennent des espaces de confrontation avec les autres parties prenantes et des ressources pour influer sur la trajectoire des politiques.

International audience ; The revival of public policy reforms in Africa has led to a proliferation of workshops, seminars, and other multi-stakeholder forums, which are largely overlooked in research.Five years after the new Land Code, the 2018 National Forum on Land Tenure in Benin provided an opportunity to socialize information on the Code's implementation progress,and to engage in a critical dialogue on the relationship between local elected officials and land administration. The Forum thus marked a step in an ongoing process of landpolicy negotiation by updating the power relations between actors. By funding such workshops, donors provide both spaces for confrontation with other stakeholders andresources to influence the trajectory of policies for the national networks of policy entrepreneurs they support. ; Le renouveau des politiques publiques en Afrique suscite une multiplication d'ateliers, séminaires et autres forums pluri-acteurs, que la recherche néglige largement. Cinq ans après le vote d'un nouveau Code domanial et foncier, le Forum national sur le foncier au Bénin de 2018 a permis de socialiser l'information sur les avancées dans sa mise en oeuvre et d'engager un dialogue critique sur les rapports entre élus locaux et administration foncière. Il a ainsi marqué une étape dans un processus continu de négociation de la politique foncière, en actualisant des rapports de force entre acteurs. En finançant ces ateliers, les bailleurs de fonds offrent aux réseaux nationaux d'entrepreneurs de politiques qu'ils soutiennent des espaces de confrontation avec les autres parties prenantes et des ressources pour influer sur la trajectoire des politiques.

International audience ; The formalization of "informal" customary land rights is at the core of current rural land policies in Africa. The dubious impacts of such policies on agricultural production, and the recomposition of land rights and governance they impulse have been largely studied. But their territorial dimensions are hardly acknowledged. Studying the implementation of a rural land rights formalization project in central Benin, this paper highlights the links between territorialization and plot level land rights formalization. It first unpacks the notion of village and presents a conceptual framework for analyzing the superposition and contradiction between customary and administrative territories. Mobilizing two case studies, it then studies the conflicts during formalization operations and their outcomes in terms of land rights mapping and political and administrative change This article shows how the political organization of the territory and the socio-spatial inequalities resulting from the history of settlement shape the results of plot level land rights registration (explaining why large parts of village territories have not been registered) and in return how these registration operations impulse new territorialization processes and increase the heterogeneity of land tenure rights inside the territory. 1 Philippe Lavigne Delville is a socio-anthropologist and senior research officer at IRD (

International audience ; The formalization of "informal" customary land rights is at the core of current rural land policies in Africa. The dubious impacts of such policies on agricultural production, and the recomposition of land rights and governance they impulse have been largely studied. But their territorial dimensions are hardly acknowledged. Studying the implementation of a rural land rights formalization project in central Benin, this paper highlights the links between territorialization and plot level land rights formalization. It first unpacks the notion of village and presents a conceptual framework for analyzing the superposition and contradiction between customary and administrative territories. Mobilizing two case studies, it then studies the conflicts during formalization operations and their outcomes in terms of land rights mapping and political and administrative change This article shows how the political organization of the territory and the socio-spatial inequalities resulting from the history of settlement shape the results of plot level land rights registration (explaining why large parts of village territories have not been registered) and in return how these registration operations impulse new territorialization processes and increase the heterogeneity of land tenure rights inside the territory. 1 Philippe Lavigne Delville is a socio-anthropologist and senior research officer at IRD (

This book explores the links between environment and social systems in the Sahel, integrating ecological, demographic, economic, technical, social and cultural factors. Examining the conditions for land occupation and natural resource use, it offers a conceptual and practical approach to social organization and environmental management