Challenges and Opportunities of Rural Land Administration in ANRS, South Gondar Zone in the Case of Laygaint Woreda (1991-2023).

Abstract

The issues of good rural land administration in the developing (third world) countries is the issues of survival and rural land administration as a process face multiple and dynamic challenge’s that these challenge affects the rural dwellers(farmers) in different directions and perspectives. Therefore, this study aims to adressed the challenges and opportunities of rural land administration in the case of Laygaynt Woreda, south Gonder zone Amhara Region Ethiopia. So, as to achieve the objectives of the study, both primary and secondary data are taken. Firstly, primary data is collected through interviewing and questioning from those people whom to concern such as rural land administrator, farmers and lawyers accompanied by focus group discussion, interpretation of report letters and critical observation. Secondly, secondary data is also collected from different published and unpublished documents such as journals, legal documents, books, research findings and articles. As a research finding shows, rural land administration as a process faces multiple challenges from different perspectives. Forinstance, the gaps on legal framework on rural land administration and use proclamation in relation to land holding right, re-distribution of land, expropriation and compensation of land and inheritance including land registration and certification are common problems in the study area. From land management paradigm, fast human population growth and unplanned expansion of urbanization along with institutional and human constraints in the enforcement of legal provision and rights are other constraints to land administration in the study area. In addition to these, challenges highly affect on rural dwellers in terms of land tenure security and are a means to inequality, joblessness, conflict, and improper utilization of arable land in the study area.The practical implications as a policy recommendation should be reviewing regional and federal rural land policy, strengthening institutional framework of land administration, designing participatory policy and decisionmaking procedure on land administration and building capacity on agrarian reform that can be able to address land related problem in the process of land administration.