The 1983 Land Reform Act was an act of

Mauritania Mauritania (; ar, موريتانيا, ', french: Mauritanie; Berber: ''Agawej'' or ''Cengit''; Pulaar: ''Moritani''; Wolof: ''Gànnaar''; Soninke:), officially the Islamic Republic of Mauritania ( ar, الجمهورية الإسلامية ...

n law dealing with land tenure in Mauritania.Mauritania:Land tenure
, Library of Congress, June 1988, Retrieved on June 11, 2008. The underlying first cause of the act was the state's inherent and overriding interest in

land development Land development is the alteration of landscape in any number of ways such as: * Changing landforms from a natural or semi-natural state for a purpose such as agriculture or housing * Subdividing real estate into lots, typically for the purpose ...

. According to the act, the government could grant title for parcels of undeveloped land which apparently included fallow land to whoever pledged to improve it and at the same time possessed requisite resources. Although the economic necessity of the act was beyond question, the social costs of appropriating valuable

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Basin land hypothetically controlled by blacks and redistributing it to wealthy Maures from farther north proved difficult to conduct.

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Library of Congress Law of Mauritania

Land Reform Act Land reform is a form of agrarian reform involving the changing of laws, regulations, or customs regarding land ownership. Land reform may consist of a government-initiated or government-backed property redistribution, generally of agricultural ...

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