DECLARATION DES ORGANISATIONS DE LA SOCIETE CIVILE OEUVRANT DANS LE DOMAINE DU FONCIER ET DES SECTEURS CONNEXES À MADAGASCAR

Civil society organisations in Madagascar are advocating for urgent land governance reforms to combat corruption, land grabbing, and fragile tenure security. They recommend prioritising local farmers, women, and youth over foreign investors, formalising community land rights, and ensuring local communities have a central role in environmental and investment projects.

• Despite reforms starting in 2005 to decentralise and reduce colonial-era systems, Madagascar faces persistent structural weaknesses in land governance, including corruption, land grabbing, and limited access to land information.
• Land pressures and conflicts are increasing due to rapid urbanisation, population growth, and the proliferation of large-scale economic projects, leaving vulnerable groups—including women, youth, and local communities—with fragile land rights.
• The organisations recommend suspending Agricultural Investment Zones (ZIA) and ending the granting of land leases and sales to foreign investors to prioritise national actors, family farming, and local populations.
• To secure community land rights, the declaration calls for the finalisation of a law on community land rights and the legal clarification of the role of the Fokonolona and the status of the Fokontany as a decentralised territorial collectivity.
• Environmental governance should be restructured to ensure local communities have a central role through systematic consultation, mutual consent, and transparency for all investment, conservation, or restoration projects.

APA

Natural Justice (2026). DECLARATION DES ORGANISATIONS DE LA SOCIETE CIVILE OEUVRANT DANS LE DOMAINE DU FONCIER ET DES SECTEURS CONNEXES À MADAGASCAR. https://naturaljustice.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/Declaration_Assises_version_FR.pdf

Chicago

Natural Justice. DECLARATION DES ORGANISATIONS DE LA SOCIETE CIVILE OEUVRANT DANS LE DOMAINE DU FONCIER ET DES SECTEURS CONNEXES À MADAGASCAR. 2026. https://naturaljustice.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/Declaration_Assises_version_FR.pdf.

Wikipedia

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BibTeX

@misc{naturaljustice2026declaration, author = {{Natural Justice}}, title = {{DECLARATION DES ORGANISATIONS DE LA SOCIETE CIVILE OEUVRANT DANS LE DOMAINE DU FONCIER ET DES SECTEURS CONNEXES À MADAGASCAR}}, publisher = {Natural Justice}, year = {2026}, month = apr, url = {https://naturaljustice.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/Declaration_Assises_version_FR.pdf}, urldate = {2026-10-23}, note = {Indexed by Climate Insights Directory} }