This is the website of Leo de Haan, Director of the African Studies Centre in Leiden and Professor in Development Studies of Sub-Sahara Africa at Leiden University.

On this site you can find more information about me; the research projects I am carrying out and supervising, or which I have implemented, including their resulting publications (some of which can be downloaded); and a complete list of my own publications.

Key words related to my scientific work, in alphabetic order, are:

Africa, agriculture, Benin, Burkina Faso, capitals and resources, cattle trade, common property management, common property resources, cross-border trade, development, development geography, development issues, development planning, development policy, development studies, environment, environmental management, food security, food trade, Fulani, genre de vie, gestion de terroir, globalisation, government, history, human geography, interdisciplinary, irrigation, labour migration, land degradation, land management, land tenure, land use, livelihood networks, livelihood system, livelihoods, local environmental management, locality, Mali, migration, Morocco, multidisciplinary, natural resource management, Niger, pastoral associations, pastoralists, peasant-pastoralist conflicts, peasant-pastoralist relations, Peul, policy, political geography, regional planning, resource conflicts, rural-urban relations, Sahel, social capital, social geography, state, stockbreeding, sustainable development, sustainable land use, Togo, Tunisia, village land management, West Africa.