Policy Summary
This policy establishes an accelerated programme for the systematic surveying, adjudication, and titling of smallholder agricultural land parcels. It incorporates specific provisions to strengthen women’s land rights, improve communal land governance, and reduce administrative barriers to land registration for low-income rural households.
Rationale
Secure land tenure is a foundational input to agricultural investment, rural credit access, and sustainable land management. Despite decades of land administration reform, fewer than 40% of smallholder agricultural parcels in the country possess formal documentation. The backlog is largest in rural areas where women’s customary land rights are most at risk of dispossession.