1. Le projet d'une réforme agraire au Nord-Kivu: les impasses au point de départ
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Mushagalusa Mudinga, Emery, Kambale Nzweve, Jean Louis, and UCL - SSH/IACS - Institute of Analysis of Change in Contemporary and Historical Societies
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Nord Kivu ,JF ,régulation foncière ,accaparement des terres ,conflits fonciers ,réforme agraire ,développement rural ,programme de stabilisation - Abstract
Land conflicts in the Eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo represent a challenge for rural development. Five years prior to the launch of a national land reform by the central government, the provincial government of North Kivu defended in its five-year program (2007-2011) a series of measures related to agrarian reform: harmonization of land tenures, land expropriation and landscape planning. Beyond the financial constraints advanced as the main cause of the ineffectiveness of the program, this article addresses the underlying causes of the North Kivu provincial government's failure to confront the demand and supply of institutional change with regards to agrarian reform. The analysis reveals a flawed planning system, built on a confusing vision of the kind of transformation applicable to the DRC’s rural economy. Moreover, the agrarian reform program is accompanied by a defective budgeting that will hardly allow the executive to deal with the issue of agrarian reform. Apparently, policy makers adopted revolutionary language concerning agrarian reform that does not match the interests of the ruling government coalition, composed of party members at the forefront of the political scene. The paper concludes by demonstrating that despite the proposed responses, civil society on its own is simply incapable with its limits and constraints, to pressure policy makers into initiating a genuine agrarian reform. The peacebuilding and stabilization program which is being implemented by international organisations, outside state control, is also having a limited impact on land regulation and agrarian reform.
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- 2014