Abstract:
This research is aimed at an empirical examination of the institutional developments that have
occurred in Afro-Colombian communities after the change of a property right regime. We
surveyed community leaders to understand whether these communities have succeeded in
designing and implementing rules to manage their collective land and its resources. This paper
illustrates how collective titling has changed the local environmental governance by creating
local rules and legal tools to guard against the encroachment by intruders. Our study presents
an example of a complex property system where both formal and informal rights coexist.
