Foreword -- Abstracts -- Formalisation and Informalisation of Land and Water Rights in Africa: An Introduction -- Reinventing Institutions: Bricolage and the Social Embeddedness of Natural Resource Management -- Neither Tragedy Nor Enclosure: Are There Inherent Human Rights in Water Management in Zimbabwe's Communal Lands? -- The Interplay Between Formal and Informal Systems of Managing Resource Conflicts: Some Evidence from South-Western Tanzania -- Scrambling for Land in Tanzania: Processes of Formalisation and Legitimisation of Land Rights -- When Farmers Use 'Pieces of Paper' to Record Their Land Transactions in Francophone Rural Africa: Insights into the Dynamics of Institutional Innovation -- Monetary Land Transactions in Western Burkina Faso: Commoditisation, Papers and Ambiguities -- Race for the Prize: Land Transactions and Rent Appropriation in the Malian Cotton Zone -- Custom, Contracts and Cadastres in North-West Rwanda -- Index