Land Records for the Poor

Land Records for the Poor (Brief-2012)

Conventional land administration systems rarely improve tenure security for the poor. Land registration is not a neutral process. It usually aims to create “active” tenure security so that documented (“titled”) land can be managed in a formalized system.

For poor people, the priority is “passive” tenure security so that they may avoid eviction or losing their right to the land.

A “continuum of land recording” approach can develop into one that also increasingly supports “active” tenure security, but which begins the process from the more protective “passive” side.

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