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Integrating Land Issues and Land Policy with Poverty Reduction
and Rural Development in Southern Africa
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| 1. Purpose and Objectives |
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The Regional Workshop on Land Issues in Africa, 29 April to 2 May 2002, sought to achieve a number of objectives: 1) review analytical work and practical experience on land issues; 2) discuss ways in which broadly agreed upon principles of land policy are translated into policy and programmatic interventions; and 3) assess the integration of land in national strategies for poverty reduction and economic growth. The first two and half days of the conference were devoted to 10 panels on tenure security, legal framework, customary to modern transition, pastoralism, conflict, land markets, land reform, peri-urban growth, taxation, gender, and land administration systems. Following these panels, parallel sessions on regional case studies for West Africa, Southern Africa and East Africa were held to clarify linkages between land issues, poverty, and national strategies for development and poverty reduction.
Four background papers were prepared for Session II on Southern Africa – a regional overview of the Southern Africa region (Mbaya), and selected country papers prepared for Lesotho (Selebalo), Mozambique (Quadros) and Namibia (Katali). This paper endeavors to synthesize or consolidate key information on land issues and constraints expressed in these papers, and in addition integrates this synthesis with comments and discussions in previous panels, and with the summary discussions of the working group on Southern Africa (Session II).
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