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Item 25 Years of Land Reform(Namibia University of Science and Technology, Integrated Land Management Institute, 2015) Werner, WolfgangThe Land, Livelihoods and Housing Programme aims at deepening and expanding the focus on these three key issues in Namibia. This thematic approach seeks to reflect the wide-ranging skills exiting at the FNRSS, and was developed to guide ILMI’s activities during the 2014-18 period. The programme is organised in four aspects: institutional, environmental, fiscal and spatial processes.Item 25 years of land reform (ILMI Working paper No. 1).(NUST, Integrated Land Management Institute, 2015) Werner, WolfgangThis Working Paper, the first in the series to be published by ILMI, will briefly review progress in both land reform sectors and raise a few issues that continue to pose challenges to the programme.Item Land reform(Namibia University of Science and Technology, Integrated Land Management Institute, 2018) Werner, WolfgangA lot of aspects are commonly subsumed under the concept land reform. These range from redistribution to tenure and agrarian reform. What do these different concepts mean? Agrarian reform: this is the broadest term and refers to attempts to change the agrarian structure of a country. It typically includes land reform, tenure, the reform of agricultural support systems and the reform of the credit system. Land reform: interventions to change the pattern of land ownership or agrarian structure through a process of redistributing land Tenure reform: tenure refers to the system governing access to land defining rights and obligations. Tenure reform refers to reforming these rules to achieve improved tenure security or equity. While land reform involves moving some people off the land in order to improve access to such land by other, tenure reforms leaves people holding the same land but with different rights.Item Land Reform in Namibia: A Bibliography(Namibia University of Science and Technology, Integrated Land Management Institute, 2016) Werner, WolfgangILMI is delighted to publish this bibliography in its Working Paper Series. It sees this as a small contribution to encourage and facilitate research on land reform in Namibia. Perhaps more ambitiously, this bibliography may serve as a starting point to collect the titles listed in order to strengthen the resource centre on land administration and land reform.Item Leasehold as a Vehicle for Economic Development(2017-03) Werner, Wolfgang; Bayer, Charl-Thom H.Secure tenure and registered land rights are widely believed to be necessary for access to credit, well functioning land markets and economic development. As a result Namibia introduced long term leasehold rights over communal and commercial land for resettlement purposes in order to address preindependence imbalances in land holdings. The purpose is to bring the resettled beneficiaries into the mainstream of the economy, but this has not happened. The research analysed the institutional framework for resettlement allocations and the transaction costs in order to understand the impact of leaseholds on the beneficiaries ability to access credit and mobilise investments. The findings suggest that the transaction cost were low when compared with similar transaction internationally, but high in comparison with the production value of the parcels of land. The lack of resources available to the beneficiaries and their resultant inability to service loans is a major contributor to the lack of economic development. Poor access to information on the registration requirements for leases, combined with the requirements from financial institutions and the lack of a market for leasehold rights meant that beneficiaries are not able to register their leases in order participate meaningfully in economic development.Item Leasehold as a Vehicle for Economic Development(Legal Assistance Centre, 2016-11) Werner, Wolfgang; Bayer, Charl-Thom