Unconventional approaches to land administration : the need for an international research agenda

Molen, Paul van der

The last decade the call for unconventional approaches to land administration has become manifest. Many global and national policy documents challenge land administration systems to adopt new strategies to cope with pro poor land management, sustainable development eand economic growth. Conventional ways of land administration, e.g. titling programmes, are considered as being too complicated, too accurate, too slowly, too expensive and too much in favour of middle and elite classes. This paper aims at analysing what land administration is, what the new challenges are, and which research is needed to meet the new requirements.

Event: 5th FIG Regional Conference for Africa : Promoting Land Administration and Good Governance

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