Land Tenure in Sub-Saharan Africa and its Implications for Access and Benefit-Sharing to Bio-Diversity ppt
Ayodele A. Adewole
Faculty of Law, University of Jos, Nigeria.
The realization of the objectives of the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD), Art. 1, is hinged on the twin pillars of access to genetic resources by stakeholders involved in providing health to the growing world population, which are mainly the big pharmaceutical companies of the North.
Land tenure systems in African countries will impact one way or another in the realization of the objectives of the CBD and land ownership rights have the capacity to either foster the realisation of the objectives of the CBD, or hinder them.
The problem is that much of sub-Saharan Africa does not have articulated land ownership legislation that will ensure community participation in negotiations on access to their resources. Hence, existing land tenure regimes impact the realization of the objectives of the CBD, providing an insight as to how countries in sub-Saharan Africa view the sovereignty over biological resources within their jurisdictions.
Event: Annual World Bank Conference on Land and Poverty 2019
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