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

纳米比亚有一个双重的土地权制度，其基础是“土著”和“定居者”地区的殖民分离。在大部分人口居住的公共区域，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，从而增加租户投资土地的可能性。拟议的研究项目将伴随着登记过程，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，同时促进农业的可持续发展，以及决定这种结果的可能性的主要因素是什么。该跨学科研究项目将结合社会人类学以及社会和自然地理学的方法，评估土地权正规化的社会和生态后果，并提供有关土地权正规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.