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| Title: | Land Dispute Resolution in Mozambique: institutions and evidence of agroforestry technology adoption |
| Authors: | Unruh, Jon D. |
| Issue Date: | 2001-02 |
| Series/Report no.: | CAPRi Working Paper
12 |
| Abstract: | Successful adoption of natural resource management technologies requires that
important fundamentals of property rights be established. Because disputes over property
rights occur universally, the ability to successfully defend one’s rights to property exercises a
central influence on the tenure security necessary for technology adoption. However,
defending rights to property rests upon the possession of evidence that is readily available and
widely regarded as legitimate. This paper presents work carried out in postwar Mozambique
on the availability and legitimacy of evidence pertaining to land tenure dispute resolution.
What is unusual about the Mozambique case is that the physical presence of a natural resource
management technology—agroforestry trees in this case—also serves as one of the most
widely available and legitimate forms of evidence in the postwar period. Such an arrangement
reveals important aspects about the reverse relationship between property rights and
technology adoption. While such an evidence role for a technology may at first appear to
encourage further adoption of agroforestry, important influences on property rights in the
postwar setting serve to discourage full adoption and jeopardize the long-term presence of
existing agroforestry trees. It remains to be seen if recent legislative changes regarding
property rights will successfully engage customary forms of evidence and encourage full
adoption of agroforestry in Mozambique. |
| URI: | http://purl.umn.edu/50052 |
| Institution/Association: | International Food Policy Research Institute>CAPRi Working Papers |
| Total Pages: | 49 |
| Collections: | CAPRi Working Papers
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