Land
Access to land
Types of land occupation
| Type of land tenure | Description |
|---|---|
Lease | Establish a Contract between the Landowner and the New Operator (s) |
Purchase | Pay the land and make the sales agreement |
Don | Sale against zero francs |
Heritage | From father to son, that is to say, it is the sons who benefit from the father's land patrimony. The descendants of these sons will in turn benefit from these heritages. |
leasing | Negotiating an amount to be paid annually or per crop year |
Source : Interview with producers and Monograph of the municipality of Savalou
Relative importance
Distribution of land ownership
| Type of land | Estimated share of total area% |
|---|---|
Administrative reserve | 5 |
Property of the municipality | 25 including the hills |
Small land use | 38 |
Large farm | 16.22 |
Inhabited area | 15.78 |
Mode of access to the land
Role of gender
Women can be heirs to their parents' lands if they do not have brothers who can manage the inheritances of the parents who have already died.Children under the age of 18 (major physiologically) are heirs but by their mother. Access to land often involves inheritance and sharecropping. Men are usually heirs to their parents' lands. Women can exploit but are not owners. As for sharecropping, it is mainly foreigners who practice it.These practices are observed in the purely agricultural areas of the municipality.
Sources : Field survey of some wise men
Distribution between men and women
| Percentage of land that is exploited by men | Percentage of land that is exploited by women | Total |
|---|---|---|
70 | 30 | 100 |
Importance of access modes according to sex
Modes of access according to sex
| Mode of access | Men | Women |
|---|---|---|
Heritage | 65 | 10 |
Purchase | 20 | 20 |
Paid rental | 5 | 10 |
Free rental | 5 | 30 |
Don | 5 | 30 |
Total | 100% | 100% |
Cost of purchase
| Place | Cost / ha |
|---|---|
In campaign | 80,000 to 300,000f |
Near the city | 400,000 to 800,000f |
Source : Field Survey
Cost of renting the land
| Place | Cost / ha and per year |
|---|---|
In campaign | 50,000 but rare, we only share sharecropping |
Near the city | 100,000 or sharecropping |
Source : Survey in some villages
Local surface units
Local surface unit
| Name of the unit | Surface in m² |
|---|---|
Ada-kpo or Ala or Akplanou | 2,000 |
hecta-kpo | 10,000 |
Tchinnin-kpo | 400 |
Source : Survey of producers in some villages.