Land Allocation, Acquisition and Readjustments, Different Techniques for Land Redistribution
Osterberg, Tommy
This draft paper has been presented at the occasion of the Symposium 'Land redistribution in Southern Africa', 6-7 November 2002, Pretoria SA. A final version of this paper will be published February 2003.
This paper is a review of different techniques that have been used for land redistribution in different countries in the world during the last century. Land redistribution may have many purposes. It can aim at redistribution of land from a wealthy group of landlords to poor people in general or to tenants actually cultivating the land to achieve better social justice and give the poor a chance to improve their living conditions. It can have a more economic aim to provide better conditions for investments and improvements of agriculture technology through structural changes of land distribution in order to provide better income opportunities for those land users, who have capacity for such development. It can aim at providing access to land controlled by the State or other bigger groups to an increasing population through land allocation. It can also aim at a redistribution of existing land areas within a group, a village, in order to give new members of the group/village, access to land for their living on behalf of land already cultivated by other members of thegroup/village.
Event: Symposium Land Redistribution in Southern Africa
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