title: A comparative overview on agricultural contracts in Sudan
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metadata.value: Piccinelli, Gian M.
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metadata.name: dc.date.accessioned
metadata.value: 2023-10-16T11:05:42Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.available
metadata.value: 2023-10-16T11:05:42Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.issued
metadata.value: 2023-09
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metadata.value: Piccinelli, Gian M. 2023. A comparative overview on agricultural contracts in Sudan. Pravovedenie 67 (3): 272–283. https://doi.org/10.21638/spbu25.2023.302
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metadata.value: https://doi.org/10.21638/spbu25.2023.302
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metadata.value: http://hdl.handle.net/11701/44250
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metadata.value: Sudan, like other African nations, has experienced challenges related to land ownership, aggravated
  by its previous status as the largest country in Africa before South Sudan’s secession.
  Traditionally, land in Sudan has been held collectively by tribes, managed by chiefs or tribal leaders
  through customary regulations. In this system, an individual’s right to land is derived from
  their membership in the community or tribe. Specific areas for communal use are exclusively
  reserved under customary law, where individuals can access them as a shared resource. This
  concept aligns with the notion of a native common good in modern terms, as described by the
  economic analysis of law, where ownership rights prevent individuals from excluding others. The
  right to exclude others does not apply in this case. These customary traditions remained mostly
  unaffected by colonial and post-colonial governments, which introduced a separate land tenure
  system based on the state’s authority to allocate land. Alongside these customs, Islam, as a religious
  faith, also played a significant role, providing principles and regulations that intertwined
  with customary traditions to form a binding body of law. However, the religious rules themselves
  are only one component of the living law, whose content is shaped through the interaction with
  customary practices. Official land law in Sudan, influenced by colonial practices, has undergone
  modifications under successive governments but remains fundamentally rooted in the colonial
  land laws. These laws were initially implemented to confiscate large land areas for commercial
  farming, particularly cotton production, and to regulate urban residency in support of colonial regime
  security. One of the fundamental issues related to rural land tenure stems from the principle
  introduced by the British colonial power in 1898, which assumes that unregistered land is owned
  by the government unless proven otherwise. Considering the premises, the purpose of this contribution
  is to analyse the land laws in Sudan and, in particular, the main type of agrarian contracts.
metadata.lang: en_GB
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metadata.value: en
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.publisher
metadata.value: St Petersburg State University
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metadata.name: dc.relation.ispartofseries
metadata.value: Pravovedenie;Volume 67; Issue 3
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Sudan
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: agrarian law
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Shari’a
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: customary law
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: agrarian contracts
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.title
metadata.value: A comparative overview on agricultural contracts in Sudan
metadata.lang: en_GB
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metadata.value: Article
metadata.lang: en_GB
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