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   Lineage and land reforms in Malawi: Do matrilineal and patrilineal landholding systems represent a problem for land reforms in Malawi?

   Land Use Policy Volume 41

   Peer-reviewed publication

   November, 2014

   Malawi, Norway, United States of America

   Indigenous & Community Land Rights

   Land & Gender

   Land, Climate Change & Environment

   land reform

   land tenure

   land tenure systems

   land use

   lineage

   matrilineal lineage

   patrilineal lineage

   research

   Based on government statistics and interviews with villagers across Malawi this article argues that customary matrilineal and patrilineal land tenure systems serve to weaken security of land tenure for some family members as well as obstructing the creation of gender-neutral inheritance of lands. Data from the National Census of Agriculture and Livestock 2007and the 2008 Population and Housing Census are used to characterize marriage systems and landholding patterns of local communities. Marriage systems correspond to customary land-tenure patterns of matrilineal or patrilineal cultures.