Review on Impacts of Rural Land Registration and Certification on Small Holder Farmers in Ethiopia

Land is becoming increasingly scarce for Ethiopia particularly for rural households and a source livelihood and as the same time cause of conflict and dispute between and within groups in rural household. The objective of the seminar is to review the impacts of land registration and certification on rural households of Ethiopia. In Ethiopia for the past ten years over 9.1householdrs were received land certifications. Even though such amount of landholders of received land certifications there is a gap of perception between region to region as well as farmer to farmers. The review also assesses different governments’ rules, policies and land legislation from Emperor to EPDRF. In Emperor Regimes land was freehold tenure, provide individual titles of land and facilitate land sales. In Derg there was abolished the tenant-landlord relations and land was to tiller but land could not sold and exchanged. According to EPDRF policy land is both private and public owner ship, so it could be registered and certified and not to be sold exchanged. But still there is different disagreement on land titling and tenure security. Some scholars said that land registration and titling can create conflicts over land rights. While other, said under productivity and low investment is due to land was under governments. But it will be better if contending parties listen what the people say and take into account the social, cultural and historical contexts of the society before designing and revising land policies and strategies. At the end it summarizes with more outcomes will be achieved through stockholders participation. Keywords: land, land registration, certification, impact, policy DOI: 10.7176/JESD/12-15-02 Publication date:August 31st 202