Land police and administration Reform in Mozambique
An economic reflection
From the poverty to development
One teorical model developed by me I had as conclusion that what is most important is to define
any realistic integration procedures to promote investment in land communities areas, where the
state has as responsibility to mediate between the local community and the investor.
Land administration reform
The land administration reform in Africa in general has been affected by political matters, and
how to separate the political proposes and socio-economical matters, to define a realistic model
of grown? The land rights really is required, but more than to solve community problems
regarding land is necessary to look the performance of the economy and to define, if we have so
many land, how to use it to grown the economy, reducing the poverty, to promote investment
and employment, to increase he GDP in our countries and so one.
May be to start to building up a reform model appropriate for developing countries, where the
land belongs to the state. (i) This model has to take in account that land is an important resource
for agriculture and has to be valued; (ii) that the economic structure of developing countries has
agriculture as mean activity. (iii) that land conflicts is common, between the community and the
investor, and how to reduce it. (iv) What is the community and where its area begins and where
it ends? Anywhere, too many problems have to be solved first.
In general, we can see that so many lands still unexplored, but we have too many investments
looking for land where to put in its activities with several economies of the scale and externality
for the community.
The Law is now-a-day an very important instrument that some countries as Mozambique has to
protect the community, but is necessary to introduce mechanisms to improve activities in rural
areas using that land noon used. The local farmers use not more that 1 - 2ha, and the type of
agriculture is familiar,
I hear from some one saying "African solutions for Africa, and pacific solutions for the Pacific."
That means that really we have to promote discussion and to take ago the Land police
considering the local of implementation.
One day I was thinking, is it possible to use land title for credit incorporating the land insurance?
But what is the land insurance if it belongs to state? Are some of my dreams!
In the rural area, today we need to promote the production, offering means of production,
services, incentives; we have to promote agriculture infra-structures destroyed by war and
calamities, what to do if we don's have capita? why not to introduce who can, to do?