Communal land reform in Namibia - Implications of Individualisation of land tenure

纳米比亚实行双重土地权利制度，殖民地将“土著”和“定居者”地区分开。在大部分人口居住的社区，没有永久保有权，但使用权由传统当局分配给家庭。现在对共有土地所有权进行登记，以使土地保有权更有保障，从而增加租户对土地投资的可能性。拟议的研究项目将伴随登记过程，并提供其社会和生态后果的整体形象。该项目的主要目的是评估更有保障的土地所有权是否能够真正保护农村穷人的土地权利，同时促进可持续农业发展，以及哪些主要因素决定了这种结果的可能性。跨学科的研究项目将结合联合收割机方法，从社会人类学，以及社会和自然地理学，以评估土地权利正式化的社会和生态后果，并提供有关土地权利正式化和土地私有化的一般经验教训。

Namibia has a twofold land rights system based in the colonial separation of ‘indigenous’ and ‘settler’ areas. In communal areas, where the major part of the population lives, there are no freehold titles, but use rights are assigned to households by Traditional Authorities. Communal land titles are now registered to make land tenure more secure and thus to increase the likelihood of tenants investing in the land. The proposed research project will accompany the registration process and provide a holistic image of its social and ecological consequences. The project’s main aim is to assess whether more secure land titles can in-deed protect land rights of the rural poor and simultaneously further sustainable agricultural development, and what main factors are determining the likelihood of such an outcome. The interdisciplinary research project will combine methods from social anthropology, as well as social and physical geography to assess the social and ecological consequences of land rights formalisation and provide lessons about land rights formalisation and land privatization in general.