STRATEGIES DES ACTEURS FACE A L’ENREGISTREMENT DES CONVENTIONS DE VENTE DES TERRES A L’AGENCE NATIONALE DU DOMAINE ET DU FONCIER AU BENIN / STAKEHOLDERS’ STRATEGIES WITH REGARD TO THE REGISTRATION OF LAND SALE AGREEMENTS AT THE “AGENCE NATIONALE DU DOMAINE ET DU FONCIER”, BÉNIN
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With a view to securing land tenure in the Republic of Benin, the State has created, in accordance with the land and state code, an agency for the registration of agreements for the sale of land and for the issuance of the land certificate. Due to the application of the finance law from January 2020, landowners were forced to register their land deeds until December 31, 2019, a grace period after which registrations must be paid. This land reform, instead of being favorably received by all social categories, is opposed by circumvention strategies on the part of the landowners. By postulating that the strategies put forward to bypass the legal system for registering land sale agreements are co-constructed with the institutional actors empowered to apply the texts, this paper attempts to analyze this paradoxical situation. To achieve this, participant observation and semi-structured individual interview carried out with 10 actors selected in a reasoned manner were used. The empirical data collected was processed using content analysis and triangulation. The results, analyzed with the theory of circumvention and the game of actors, reveal that the purchasers of plots and the owners of land develop strategies of circumvention of the legal device of recording of the agreements of sale to minimize the costs involved application of the 2020 finance law. This circumvention is facilitated by the institutional actors responsible for the operationalization of the land reform; which leads to legal incompleteness in the application of the land and state code.
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