Slowly towards trustworthy land records of pre-existing land rights
Zevenbergen, Jaap
There are still many areas in the world where the land rights are not included in a formal, usually quite centralized, land registration system. Projects to titlee such lands, are often not very successful, and rarely manage to cover a whole jurisdiction or country within a few years. In the mean time more and more of these areas are influenced by economic and national developments that starts to change land into a commodity. Land transactions are becoming more frequent, and the circle of potential purchasers is growing as well. Increasingly such transactions are put in writing, and the contract is regularly witnessed by local leaders (either customary or from the formal structures). Here and there copies of the contract are kept by these leaders, although often they are not archived and indexed properly.
Event: XXIII International FIG Congress : Shaping the change
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