Improving Tenure Security for the Rural Poor Mozambique Country Case Study

October 2006
Simon Norfolk and Christopher Tanner (FAO LEP Working Paper 5)

Has 6 main chapters: the nature of land rights; public land administration and registration (implications for rural land occupiers); formalizing DUATs by occupation – participation and registration (local-level consultations and bargaining power); formalization in practice – 3 case studies; implications for formalizing DUATs and how they can be used (awareness of rights, attitudes, and citizenship); new challenges to implementation (making consultations work, the need to educate, conflicts and access to justice).