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Land Tenure and Property Rights Concepts and Terminology Presenter: Mike Roth Best Practices for Land Tenure and Natural Resource Governance in Africa Monrovia, Liberia October 2012

Land in the News 2 Delegates And Government Clash On Customary Land Families in Kacyiru, Kimicanga Areas to Be Expropriated Rwanda: Land Registration Complete Zimbabwe land reform 'not a failure' What's Behind International Land Grabs?

Objectives 1.Introduce some fundamental concepts and terms used in the course concerning both issues and interventions in land tenure systems 2.Provide participants with a shared vocabulary of land tenure and property rights 3 3.Identify a few common confusions in the use of key terms which can lead to miscommunication in policy discussions

What is land tenure? 1.Land = Real, Tenure = Property 2.What’s the point of property rights in land?  Avoiding a free-for-all  Reducing risks and creating incentives  Allowing land to move among users  Creating capital - land is a financial asset 4

5 What is tenure—A bundle of rights

What are some basic tenures? 1.Tenures are characterized in terms of:  Type of right: ownership (freehold), tenancy (leasehold), usufruct (use right), concession, license  Holder: individual (private), state (public), community (common) 6 2.Tenures are not made in Heaven but are created by law

7 Property regimes  Private property: Strands of property bundle are held by a natural or legal person  Common property: Strands are shared among members of a community or association  Public property: Strands are concentrated, held and managed by the government  Open access: Either no specific rights to land or natural resources have been assigned or claimed by holders.

What is a tenure system? 1.Includes all the tenures present within a given polity, for example a nation 2.Consists of:  Tenures (several bundles of rights and responsibilities which compliment each other) and  Institutions (land management/administration), with  Connections to larger systems (e.g., economic, political, social systems), which produce certain  Results (equity, efficiency, or more narrowly, security, productivity, distribution, marketability, credit access) 3.In most developing countries include several sub- systems from different sources 8

What is legal pluralism? 9 How does it work or not work? 1.Validates/protects diversity, culture, identity 2.Co-existing bodies of law may be well or poorly coordinated 3.Tenure systems may be unique or overlapping resulting in confusion and conflict Imagine you are farmer? 1.Parcels may be held under different tenures 2.If systems are poorly coordinated then uncertainty about which system prevails or what authorities are responsible

What is customary land tenure? 1.Where do we find customary land tenure? 2.What does “customary” mean? 3.Is customary land tenure necessarily  Old and unchanging?  Communal?  Informal?  Insecure?  Headed for “the trash bin of history”? 4.Strategies: replacement, adaptation or …? 5.Increased urgency: land market globalization 10

What is common property? 1.What is a “commons”? 2.Common property vs. open access resources 4.Two key factors in analysis of common property:  Tenure (the group right)  Management (institutions) 5.Can a piece of land be both common property and individual property? 11

What is security of tenure? Key Dimensions:  Robust rights in the bundle  Sufficient duration  Inheritability?  Marketability?  Assurance of protection Questions: Why is tenure security important? Is security of tenure an objective or subjective phenomenon? 12 The Holy Grail:  Perception of having secure rights to land and property on a continual basis  Free from unreasonable interference from outsiders  Ability to reap benefits of labor and capital invested, either in use or when leased or rented to another

What is land reform? 13 Type of ReformInterventions Reforms that strengthen property rights and security  Land law reform (land tenure reform)  Land formalization (titling and registration)  Reform of land management/ land administration Reforms that strengthen access  Redistributive land reform From large private holders, or the state Expropriation or market mechanism  Tenancy reform and other law reforms  Restitution  Resettlement Regulatory interventions  Land use planning  Land consolidation

What is land formalization? 1.Informality = insecurity 2.Titling: the state confers a title on an individual in specified land, either by grant or by recognition of a pre-existing right 3.Registration: creation of an official, public record of the right (title registration) or the document creating the right (deed registration)  Sporadic: Demand driven, private initiative.  Systematic: Policy driven, public initiative. 14

What is land-grabbing (“large scale land acquisitions”)? 1.A pejorative term for large-scale land acquisition that displace existing users. 2.Can involve domestic or foreign actors, but is most often used in relation to foreign direct investment in land through land purchases and concessions 3.Can involve a wide range of purposes:  Commercial agriculture  Conservation (including REDD)  Biofuels  Mining and Petroleum Exploitation 4.Linked to the development of a global market in land 15

Source: The Guardian (4 July 2009) Which countries are involved in large scale acquisitions?

17 CountryProjectsArea (000 ha)Median Size (ha) Domestic Share Cambodia619588,98570 Ethiopia4061, Liberia171,60259,3747 Mozambique4052,6702,22553 Nigeria ,50097 Sudan1323,9657,98078 Data for except for Cambodia and Nigeria which cover Domestic share is proportion of total transferred area allocated to domestic investors: Source: The World Bank, Rising Global Interest in Farmland, Where are large scale acquisitions taking place?

Points to take away 1.Terminology matters: Example: Does “security of tenure” imply transferability? And what is “private property”? Always query key terms. 2.Use of political language confuses matters: A constitution provides: “Land belongs to the people”. 3.“Stipulative” definitions complicate matters: “In this law, ‘ownership’ means a right to use land for the life of the user.” Pay attention to definitions in statutes. 4.Remember, one man’s “reform” is another’s deform (sic). 18