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State of Land Information in Mozambique

An Open Data Assessment

Reports & Research
December, 2023
Mozambique
land administration
land information systems
cadastres
geographical information systems
cadastral register
cadastral administration
land governance
government
land practitioners
open data
In Mozambique, the law recognizes certain forms of occupation as constituting legal tenure and nationals can claim this recognition of their right to occupy and use land allocated through customary norms/practices. Local communities can also claim rights over land which they have customarily occupied, used, and managed. These rights are not prejudiced by their lack of titling or documentation and may be defended on the basis of oral testimony.
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The Fit for Purpose Land Administration Approach-Connecting People, Processes and Technology in Mozambique

Land

Peer-reviewed publication
January, 2021
Mozambique
Land, Climate Change & Environment
Forest Tenure
Indigenous & Community Land Rights
Urban Tenure
land registration
Mozambique started a massive land registration program to register five million parcels and delimitate four thousand communities. The results of the first two years of this program illustrated that the conventional methods utilized for the land tenure registration were too expensive and time-consuming and faced several data quality problems.
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The Fit for Purpose Land Administration Approach-Connecting People, Processes and Technology in Mozambique

Land

Peer-reviewed publication
January, 2021
Mozambique
Land, Climate Change & Environment
Forest Tenure
Indigenous & Community Land Rights
Urban Tenure
land administration
Mozambique started a massive land registration program to register five million parcels and delimitate four thousand communities. The results of the first two years of this program illustrated that the conventional methods utilized for the land tenure registration were too expensive and time-consuming and faced several data quality problems.
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Land Governance and Gender

The Tenure-Gender Nexus in Land Management and Land Policy

Journal Articles & Books
November, 2021
Ethiopia, Mozambique, Rwanda, Lesotho, Ghana, Mexico, China, Germany
Land & Gender
land administration
land policies
land management
This book delivers new conceptual and empirical studies surrounding the design and evaluation of land governance, focusing on land management approaches, land policy issues, advances in pro-poor land tenure and land-based gender concerns. It explores alternative approaches for land management and land tenure through international experiences. Part 1 covers Concepts, debates and perspectives on the governance and gender aspects of land. Part 2 focuses on Tenure-gender dimensions in land management, land administration and land policy.
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LAND-at-scale Mozambique

Scaling community legal literacy, land rights certification and climate resilience

Policy Papers & Briefs
July, 2021
Mozambique
Land & Food Security
Land & Gender
Land, Climate Change & Environment
cadastres
land cover mapping
gender equity in access to land
land governance
poverty
sustainable development
adjudication
tenure security
capacity development
legal empowerment
local communities
This one-pager provides details on the LAND-at-scale project in Mozambique. This project is implemented by Centro Terra Viva and Terra Firma, and financed by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs via the Netherlands Enterprise & Development Agency.
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Evaluating the Impact of Large-Scale Agricultural Investments on Household Food Security Using an Endogenous Switching Regression Model

Volume 10 Issue 3

Peer-reviewed publication
March, 2021
Kenya, Madagascar, Mozambique
Land & Food Security
food security
scale
This study set out to estimate the effects of large-scale agricultural investments (LSAIs) on household food security in one community each in Kenya, Madagascar and Mozambique. An endogenous switching regression model was adopted to control for a possible selection bias due to unobserved factors. It was found that households with members employed by large-scale agricultural investment companies were more likely larger households headed by younger migrant males holding smaller plots and fewer livestock than non-engaged households.
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Is There a Merit to the Continuum Tenure Approach? A Case of Demand for Land Rights Formulation in Rural Mozambique

Reports & Research
January, 2015
Mozambique
Indigenous & Community Land Rights
land registration
land rights
tenure security
Despite the general consensus on the need for land reforms to boost agricultural development, the lack of blueprint on required actions to safeguard land rights forces many countries to pilot various policy measures with mixed results. Using the TIA (Trabalho de Inquérito Agrícola) 2008 household and parcel level data from Mozambique, this study shows how demand for formalization of individual land rights depends on the source and type of tenure security risks.
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Reducing concession size, adjusting business plans and developing more inclusive business models

Lessons from responsible land investment pilots in sub-Saharan Africa, Case Study 3

Reports & Research
March, 2020
Malawi, Mozambique, Western Africa, Ghana, Sierra Leone
Indigenous & Community Land Rights
Land & Investments
Land Conflicts
community land rights
farmers
food security
land access
land conflicts
land investments
land ownership
land tenure
land use
local communities
scale
This paper is one of three thematic case studies resulting from a set of pilot projects undertaken jointly by civil society and private business partners from 2016–2019 in five countries in sub-Saharan Africa. These pilots sought to test how private companies could collaborate with civil society organisations and other stakeholders to implement responsible agribusiness investments that recognise and respect community land rights, and to develop innovative tools and approaches that could be adopted and implemented at greater scale.
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Approaches to land rights documentation and mapping to protect local people’s land rights in agricultural investment contexts

Lessons from responsible land investment pilots in sub-Saharan Africa, Case Study 2

Reports & Research
March, 2020
Sub-Saharan Africa, Mozambique, Tanzania, Sierra Leone
Land & Investments
land documentation
land investments
land tenure
community land rights
This paper is one of three thematic case studies resulting from a set of pilot projects undertaken jointly by civil society and private business partners from 2016–2019 in five countries in sub-Saharan Africa. These pilots sought to test how private companies could collaborate with civil society organisations and other stakeholders to implement responsible agribusiness investments that recognise and respect community land rights, and to develop innovative tools and approaches that could be adopted and implemented at greater scale.
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Options for Securing Tenure and Documenting Land Rightsin Mozambique: A Land Policy & Practice Paper

Policy Papers & Briefs
March, 2020
Eastern Africa, Mozambique
Indigenous & Community Land Rights
customary tenure
land administration
land cover mapping
land governance
land policies
land rights
land use
One of the key aspects of the Mozambican legal framework for land is that Mozambican nationals can acquire tenure rights through inheritance, via peaceful occupation or through customary channels These usufruct tenure rights, known by the Portuguese acronym ‘DUAT’ (Direito de Uso e Aproveitamento da Terra), can be held individually or jointly.