REFLECTION PAPER
Land Police and Administration reform in Mozambique
An economic view in GDP growth
By
Israel Jacob Massuanganhe
Agriculture Economist
Mozambique
I'm so happy to have this opportunity to present some ideas concerning land police and
administration in Mozambique: its implication in economic growth, investment and credit
facilities.
Is not so easy to talk about, but really is necessary to explain that this is a trouble in the
Mozambican economic growth. We can too many indicators to show what I’m talking about, but
I’ll try to be more or sufficiently clear to bring some ideas. My worry about land police and
Administration is related with poverty in Mozambique, and we never take the land as really an
existent factor to promote agriculture, as we know that is base for Mozambique development.
The law is clear “land belongs to the state, can’t be sold”. But my problem is not to create land
market, but may be to use some market laws to define or to improve its productivity in our
economy. In other hand is really that the land police don’t give sufficient instrument to valued
the land, with implication in the private investment and credit facilities.
In Mozambique agriculture is principal economical activity, and where more than 70% of the
rural population practice as its resources of income and consumption. The agriculture contribute
with 28% in GDP.
What is land Police and Administration reform?
Land police and Administration reform may be is defined as the conditions to how to promote
mechanisms to orient the socio-economic activities in the local community and stakeholders,
and how to the State can deal which land use and sustainably, land redistribution, Land tenure
changes in terms of adjustment terms, property rights land security to invest and credit facilities.
The police and administration reform (PAR) is a component of a National Institucional Reform
Program of DINAGECA, which also include the simplification of authorization land process (90
days), management changes: autonomy of land administration authority, decentralization and
local community involvement in management of natural resources (land).
Anywhere, my contribution is related to some question, which some time I'm made my self! One
of them is that the land is one of principal’s production resource, and an abundant resource in
developing countries, more than labor and capital. Following this idea, why is not relevant to
promote the productivity, credit and investment?