Land Tenure In Iringa District, Tanzania

A Rights-Based Approach

Tanzania Food Security Context

GHI 2012: 54/79 Score 19.3 ‘Serious’… close to ‘alarming’

One million people food insecure

42% of households have inadequate food

c.80% of pop. relies on farming for income and food

95% of land cultivated by farmers with <3ha

83% of the land cultivated using a simple hand hoe

Farmers lack skills, inputs & capital to invest in their farms.

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South Sudan and Tanzania - land available but basic implements/hoes

Land Rights

Land Act No.4 & Village Land Act No. 5 (1999) To formalise tenure/occupancy and resolve customary rights issues Certificate of Customary Right of Occupancy (CCRO) Intent:

– investment in land; – gender equality

Little implementation! Not recognised as ‘instruments of mortgage’ Concern using a Rights Based Approach – duty-bearers & rights

holders (supply and demand?) 10,000 CCROs issued in Iringa (180,000 in country)

Mustafa Kibibi Balizila Mwajuma Ramadhani Kachira

70 years old

Bee keepers and farmers

with new land certificates

SAGCOT, Land Investments and Compensation

New Land Authority (2012)

Land Compensation Fund – 25%

of land value.

‘Land for Equity’ – – 15% to central gov. – 5% to local gov.– 5% to farmer

‘Not as much spare land as

thought’

Land value linked to water

Southern Agricultural Growth Corridor of Tanzania(SAGCOT)

District land Registry

Conclusion

High food insecurity (& high stunting) Smallholders have no land tenure (esp. women farmers) No incentive or ability to invest in inputs & irrigation

Lack of policy coherence and policy implementation. District Land Office & Village Councils little resources – lack of

political will.

(High level research planned to test assumptions about impact of

gaining title/CCROs)