A Stakeholder-oriented Framework to Consider the Plurality of Land Policy Integration in Sahel

•Established interactions between social and ecological dynamics participate in legitimating different land regulation sources.•The model helps in understanding how the past land laws have been added to Sahelian users practices.•The model helps in understanding how the future land reforms will be welcomed by the Sahelian complex reality.•Agent-based modeling can offer new ways to think about policy diffusion.