Land Administration and Management Policy
1 INTRODUCTION
1.1 Background
The Government of Mozambique (GoM) is attempting to pursue an integrated development policy which will both
attract investment capital and increase local income, finances and new structure organization. The Land Policy
and land Administration, more that social issue is today a economical issue oriented to the market, and is
included in political agenda of the Government. The emphasis is driven to take overview of the future as
important tools of the economic growth and development. The overview of the land Policy and Administration
Reform (LPAR) is addressed to provide solutions and satisfy needs, microeconomic and macroeconomic
changes, equity, efficiency and sustainability land use, defining as strategic goals:
- Economic growth;
- Poverty reduction; and
- Sustainable land use and environmental.
1.1.1 Land and Economic growth
Its became clear that Land is not only a basic factor of production, it also has a number of specific features.
Against this background, it has long been recognized that clarifying property rights to land can enhance
economic growth through a number of channels:
- The mean macroeconomic view is that the land has to be provided and used by government and non-
governmental institutions, local community and the private sector for a wide range of purposes.
Enforced property rights and security will also increase incentives for land-demand related to investment
and thus overall economic output. In that way, the enforcement of property rights to land will provide
incentive for good natural resources management
- Efficient mechanisms for enforcing the land access and property rights exchange or transfer, are a
precondition to promote the land productivity, increase agriculture output and can be used for credit as
collateral in the transaction.
- Well-defined land rights are an indispensable basis to increase the tax-payees, important mechanism to
increase government revenue.
1.1.2 Land access and poverty reduction
While land rights are thus crucial for economic growth and development, they are also critical for the ability to
sustainable to reduce poverty, in a number of aspects.
- The literature now recognizes that rights and ownership can, increase indivisible investments (local or
external) which will provide employment and income, making an important contribution to escape
poverty.
- In rural areas where people depends on access and productive use of land, the land access can helps
to improve nutritional status and provide effective insurance against shocks in consumption.
1.1.3 Sustainable land use and environmental
While it is immediate that weak property rights will reduce households’ incentive to manage the natural
resources at their disposal in a sustainable manner, there are other channels through which land administration
would affect sustainable resource management.
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