LISTS OF TABLES AND FIGURES
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Table 1.1: Land tenure classification, Zambia, 1937 and 1950 5
Table 1.2: Land tenure classification, Zambia, 1973 and 1987 6
Table 1.3: Leases of State Land by type of lessee 7
Table 1.4: Number of farm units by size and province 8
Table 1.5: Rate of land utilization, commercial farm sector 9
Table 1.6: New farm blocks and areas under development 10
Table 1.7: Rates of growth in crop production 12
Table 1.8: Crop area, commercial and noncommercial farms 13
Table 1.9: Issuances, transfers, and mortgages of leases 27
Table 1.10: Lease applications brought forward to district councils 28
Table 1.11: Direct agricultural financing, Zambia National Commercial Bank 32
Table 1.12: Credit by number of farms, Zambia National Commercial Bank 33
Table 2.1: Structure of revenue of the Lands Department: Consent application fees 56
Table 3.1: Arable land area 81
Table 3.2: Percentage of total farm unit cultivated, 1987-88 82
Table 3.3: Percentage of total commercial farm units cultivated by farm size 83
Table 3.4: Cattle holdings and estimated rates of grazing intensity 84
Table 3.5: Distribution of rural households by type of agricultural activity and province 86
Table 3.6: Distribution of crop-growing farming units by parcel holdings and province 86
Table 3.7: Number and size of farms, commercial farm sector, 1990 88
Table 3.8: Provincial breakdown of number and size of farms, commercial farm sector 89
Table 3.9: Private transfers, commercial sector, 1988-90 average 96
Table 3.10: Small farms (0-79 ha), private transfers, 1981-1990 97
Table 3.11: Regional disaggregation of principal property transfers and leases 100
Table 3.12: Regional disaggregation of land values and sizes transferred 102
Table 3.13: Percentage of transfers, by land use and province 105
Table 3.14: Numbers of leases by size category, 1990-93 totals 107
Table 3.15: Regional disaggregation of leases by farm size, 1990-93 percentages 107
Table 3.16: Foreign offers registered, average 1990-92 109
Table 4.1: Analysis of Lands Department revenue, Zambia, 1985 to 1992 121
Table 4.2: Hypothetical example of rate determination in a city 123
Table 4.3: Ground rent charges for nonagricultural lands 130
Table 4.4: Ground rent charges for agricultural lands 130
Table 4.5: Ground rent charges for land in mining areas 130
Table 4.6: Annual ground rents, residential plots, by location 133
Table 4.7: Ground rents in 1989 prices for typical types of leases on farmland 134
Table 5.1: Characteristics of sampled households 150
Table 5.2: Percentage distribution of households by method of land acquisition 153
Table 5.3: Prevalence of household rights over farmland in male-headed households 157
Table 5.4: Percentage distribution of husbands and wives by selected rights of use and
transfer 158
Table 5.5: Distribution of households by perceived owner of land 160
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