Property
Code domanial et foncier 2000 with state ownership and an agricultural land law
Ordonnance n° 00-027 vests untitled land in the state and provides for titling. The 2017 Loi sur le foncier agricole recognises customary agricultural rights and creates village-level land commissions.
Key rules
- Jurisdiction — Commissions foncières villageoises record customary rights; the Tribunal de grande instance hears title disputes.
- Deadline — Titre foncier: application to the Direction Nationale des Domaines et du Cadastre
- Deadline — Customary agricultural right: recorded by the commission foncière villageoise
Governing law
- Ordonnance n° 00-027 du 22 mars 2000 portant Code domanial et foncier
- Loi n° 2017-001 sur le foncier agricole
- Loi n° 2019-022 portant Code minierland access
In practice
The 2017 agricultural land law was significant for creating village land commissions with authority to record customary rights, giving farmers a document short of full title. In central Mali those commissions have become entangled in the farmer-herder conflict, because recording cultivation rights over transhumance corridors intensifies precisely the dispute the commissions were meant to settle.