Protection of Peasant and Pastoral Rights in Land: a Brief Review of the Bills for the Land Act, 1998 and the Village Land Act, 1998

January 1999
Issa Shivji

Looks at criteria for assessing the bills, problems of definition, alienation of land, titling and management of village land, dispute settlement, and validation of villagisation.

Paper presented to the Parliamentary Committee for Finance and Economic Affairs Workshop on the Bills for the Land Act and the Village Land Act, Dodoma