Applying a market systems approach to stimulating land titling in Mozambique

This InvoAgro Phase III case study looks at land tenure security in Mozambique.

Land is one of the primary resources in agribusiness development. Having a community land delimitation certificate or an individual land leasehold is an essential step to encourage smallholder farmers to make, and safeguard, agricultural investments.

InovAgro’s work analysing and understanding the dynamics of land registration in Northern Mozambique and then developing improved systems for land registration has increased farmer security. It has also created greater demand for land tenure access to services to increase the value of that land to the farmers.

Bringing a market systems lens to the land titling process helped to pinpoint the main market failures and to assist in the design of systemic responses to those market failures.