IFG 6 Fellows during their fieldtrip to Kumasi (from left to right): Lamine Doumbia, Peter Narh, Aly Tounkara, Austin Ablo

MIASA's Interdisciplinary Fellow Group on "Land Governance in West Africa through Interdisciplinary Empirical Lenses" (IFG 6), spanning May to August 2022, engages with the dynamics of social practices that result in tensions, transformations, reconfigurations, and hybridizations of access to, use of, and securing land, and attempts to understand their implications for equity, sustainability, and efficiency in land governance. Access to, use of, and securing land is a multidimensional source of social, political, juridical, and economic strategies as several actors with interests in land pursue these interests. Drawing on empirical field research, the present IFG 6 research project aims at describing and analyzing how and to what extent different actors pursue their interests and interact to shape land governance in rural and urban West Africa. The fellows within this group conduct this research on an interdisciplinary methodology, with field sites in rural and urban areas of Burkina Faso, Mali, Ghana, and Senegal, aiming at producing knowledge that contributes to equitable, sustainable, and efficient delivery of urban and rural land in the region.

IFG 6 Fellows:

1. Dr. Lamine Doumbia (Co-convenor)
2. Dr. Peter Narh (Co-convenor)
3. Dr. Tounkara Aly
4. Dr. Austin Ablo