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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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Land Governance for Climate Resilience

A review and case studies from LAND-at-scale projects

Reports & Research
November, 2023
Africa, Mozambique, Uganda, South America, Colombia, Global
Land, Climate Change & Environment
gender equity
gender equity in access to land
land governance
food security
land-use planning
climate change
land use
natural resources
natural resources management
land rights
land conflicts
property rights
This report is a contribution of the knowledge management component of the LAND-at-scale programme (LAS) which is funded by the Netherlands Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and implemented by the Netherlands Enterprise Agency (Rijksdienst voor Ondernemend Nederland - RVO). LAND-at-scale is a seven-year programme (2019-2026), that aims to contribute to fair and just tenure security, access to land and natural resources for all.
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Paralegals and the Protection of Land Rights in the Communities of Manhica and Massingir, Southern Mozambique

Reports & Research
October, 2023
Mozambique
Indigenous & Community Land Rights
land law
property law
conflicts
land conflicts
community land rights
legal empowerment
The race for the exploitation of natural resources has brought challenges of different natures, including land conflicts, mainly between investors and the local population. In some cases, the resolution of problems has been unfair due to the lack of legal knowledge and representation to help the vulnerable population. It is in this context that the paralegal figure was established, endowed with solid knowledge to voluntarily provide basic legal support to community members.
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Scratching the surface: Tracing coloured gemstone flows from Mozambique and Malawi to Asia

Reports & Research
November, 2021
Malawi, Mozambique, Thailand, Sri Lanka
Land & Investments
Land Conflicts
sustainable development
mining
land investments
land stakeholders
This paper provides an overview of the supply chains and flows that run from the mines of northern Mozambique and Malawi, to the international trade hubs of Sri Lanka and Thailand. Analysis of the political and economic environment in which mining and trading take place gives a contextual understanding of gemstone flows both within and out of the region as well as the various actors involved.

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Scratching the surface

Tracing coloured gemstone flows from Mozambique and Malawi to Asia

Reports & Research
November, 2021
Mozambique
Land & Corruption
mining
The trade in coloured gemstones stretches around the world, linking source countries on almost every continent to international trade hubs, mainly in Asia, and on to retail markets. Mozambique is one such source, sitting atop significant gemstone deposits, including precious and semi-precious stones.
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Where Bottom-Up and Top-Down Meet: Challenges in Shaping Sustainable & Scalable Land Interventions

Conference Papers & Reports
June, 2021
Egypt, Burundi, Mozambique, Rwanda, Somalia, South Sudan, Uganda, Zimbabwe, Chad, Burkina Faso, Colombia, Vietnam, Palestine, Global
Land & Food Security
Land & Gender
Land & Investments
Land Conflicts
Land in post-conflict settings
Land, Climate Change & Environment
land governance
sustainable development
tenure security
land stakeholders
government
local communities
LAND-at-scale is a land governance support program for developing countries from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Netherlands, which was launched in 2019. The aim of the program is to directly strengthen essential land governance components for men, women and youth that have the potential to contribute to structural, just, sustainable and inclusive change at scale in lower- and middle-income countries/regions/landscapes. The program is designed to scale successful land governance initiatives and to generate and disseminate lessons learned to facilitate further scaling.
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Status of land ownership, land conflict, and perceptions and knowledge about the land law in Mozambique: Analysis of nationally representative data to assess the impact of land policy monitoring and capacity building activities

Reports & Research
January, 2013
Mozambique
activities
capacity development
land
land law
land ownership
monitoring
Demand and Price Analysis, International Relations/Trade, Land Economics/Use,
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Security, Conflict, and Reintegration in Mozambique: Case Studies of Land Access in the Postwar Period

Reports & Research
September, 2016
Mozambique, Norway
Indigenous & Community Land Rights
land
land access
In October 1992, the Peace Accord was signed in Mozambique. Many positive changes have taken place since then. and the countryside in postwar Mozambique is in a state of intense transformation. Nevertheless, the government has been largely silent on the issue of land tenure reform, while some of the recommendations regarding land-policy reform that have been proposed are simplistic, uninformed, and fail to reflect the present political reality in Mozambique.
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Customary tenure and innovative measures of safeguarding land rights in Africa: The community land initiative (iniciativa de terras comunitárias) in Mozambique:

Reports & Research
March, 2016
Central African Republic, Mozambique
Indigenous & Community Land Rights
customary tenure
land
land rights
This research is conducted to contribute to the currently ongoing policy debate on the benefits of collective vis-à-vis individual land tenure rights. The paper attempts to explore the Mozambican community land delimitation (CLD) program based on a community-level survey conducted in mid-September 2014. The survey revealed that land conflict is the main reason to initiate a CLD process, and nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) are major players in initiating and helping the CLD process.
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Land dispute resolution in Mozambique: institutions and evidence of agroforestry technology adoption

Reports & Research
November, 2016
Mozambique, Norway
Forest Landscape Restoration
Forest Tenure
Land Conflicts
Land in post-conflict settings
forestry
land
land dispute
land dispute resolution
Successful adoption of natural resource management technologies requires that important fundamentals of property rights be established. Because disputes over property rights occur universally, the ability to successfully defend one's rights to property exercises a central influence on the tenure security necessary for technology adoption. However, defending rights to property rests upon the possession of evidence that is readily available and widely regarded as legitimate.